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title: There was no other course but to press forward in redskin fashion, a… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: There was no other course but to press forward in redskin fashion, at which happily he was an adept. Who acts: other course, redskin fashion. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 151

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There was no other course but to press forward in redskin fashion, at which happily he was an adept.

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**Who acts:** other course, redskin fashion · **What happens:** be, press forward · **To what, where:** redskin fashion, adept

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other course, redskin fashion), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg16:14:151
# text = There was no other course but to press forward in redskin fashion, at which happily he was an adept.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	press	press	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	redskin	redskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
16	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	adept	adept	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | no other course |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **press forward** | to-infinitive | no other course *not said here* |  |  | redskin fashion and a adept |  | forward *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | redskin fashion and a adept | a adept |  |  |  | happily *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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.

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