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title: Slightly, if he had an opportunity, would blaze the trees, for insta… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Slightly, if he had an opportunity, would blaze the trees, for instance, Curly would drop seeds, and Wendy would leave her handkerchief at some important place. Who acts: silence, Curly, Wendy. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, with its dependency t
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 155

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Slightly, if he had an opportunity, would blaze the trees, for instance, Curly would drop seeds, and Wendy would leave her handkerchief at some important place.

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**Who acts:** silence, Curly, Wendy · **What happens:** have, blaze, drop, leave · **To what, where:** opportunity, trees, seeds, handkerchief, important place

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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, Curly, Wendy), 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:pg16:14:155
# text = Slightly, if he had an opportunity, would blaze the trees, for instance, Curly would drop seeds, and Wendy would leave her handkerchief at some important place.
1	Slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	blaze	blaze	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	Curly	Curly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
20	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
30	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | silence | a opportunity |  |  |  | slightly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Patient |
| 2 | **blaze** | would |  | the trees |  |  |  | for instance | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tree=Theme |
| 3 | **drop** | would | Curly | seeds |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | would | Wendy | Wendy's handkerchief |  | some important place |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme at place=Location |

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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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