--- title: “The great white father,” he would say to them in a very lordly mann… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: “The great white father,” he would say to them in a very lordly manner, as they grovelled at his feet, “is glad to see the Piccaninny warriors protecting his wigwam from the pirates.” Who acts: great white father, braves, Piccaninny warriors. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/11/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Peter Pan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/) / [Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/11/) / 6 # Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 6 “The great white father,” he would say to them in a very lordly manner, as they grovelled at his feet, “is glad to see the Piccaninny warriors protecting his wigwam from the pirates.” **Who acts:** great white father, braves, Piccaninny warriors · **What happens:** say, grovell, be, see, protect · **To what, where:** braves, lordly manner, feet, Piccaninny warriors, wigwam · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great white father, braves, Piccaninny warriors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg16:11:6 # text = “The great white father,” he would say to them in a very lordly manner, as they grovelled at his feet, “is glad to see the Piccaninny warriors protecting his wigwam from the pirates.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 very very ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 lordly lordly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 manner manner NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 grovelled grovell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 “ " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 advcl _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 Piccaninny Piccaninny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 warriors warrior NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 34 protecting protect VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 acl _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 wigwam wigwam NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 pirates pirate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ” " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | the great white father | | braves *= brave* | a lordly manner | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | | 2 | **grovell** | past | braves *= brave* | | | Father's feet | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | braves *= brave* *not said here* | | | | | glad *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | braves *= brave* *not said here* | the Piccaninny warriors | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer warrior=Stimulus | | 5 | **protect** *in a quote* | gerund | the Piccaninny warriors *not said here* | Father's wigwam | | | | from the pirates | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent wigwam=Beneficiary from pirate=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/11/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/11/7/) - ↑ back to [Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/11/)