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title: He had taught the children something of the forest lore that he had… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: He had taught the children something of the forest lore that he had himself learned from Tiger Lily and Tinker Bell, and knew that in their dire hour they were not likely to forget it. Who acts: silence, children. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, w
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 154

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He had taught the children something of the forest lore that he had himself learned from Tiger Lily and Tinker Bell, and knew that in their dire hour they were not likely to forget it.

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**Who acts:** silence, children · **What happens:** teach, have, learn, know, not be, forget · **To what, where:** silence, lore · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (silence, children), 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:pg16:14:154
# text = He had taught the children something of the forest lore that he had himself learned from Tiger Lily and Tinker Bell, and knew that in their dire hour they were not likely to forget it.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Tinker	Tinker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	Bell	Bell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	dire	dire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	ccomp	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive |  | silence |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient something=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | past | silence | silence |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **learn** | participle | silence *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from Tiger and Tinker | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from tiger=Source |
| 4 | **know** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  | hour | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **forget** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | lore |  |  |  |  | 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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