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title: Madly addicted to the drinking of water when he was hot, he had swel… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Madly addicted to the drinking of water when he was hot, he had swelled in consequence to his present girth, and instead of reducing himself to fit his tree he had, unknown to the others, whittled his tree to make it fit him. Who acts: man, tree. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 18

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Madly addicted to the drinking of water when he was hot, he had swelled in consequence to his present girth, and instead of reducing himself to fit his tree he had, unknown to the others, whittled his tree to make it fit him.

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**Who acts:** man, tree · **What happens:** addict, be, swell, reduce, fit, have · **To what, where:** man, tree, water

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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 (man, tree), 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:pg16:14:18
# text = Madly addicted to the drinking of water when he was hot, he had swelled in consequence to his present girth, and instead of reducing himself to fit his tree he had, unknown to the others, whittled his tree to make it fit him.
1	Madly	madly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	addicted	addict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	drinking	drinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	swelled	swell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	consequence	consequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	girth	girth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	26	mark	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	reducing	reduce	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
27	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	whittled	whittle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	advcl	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
47	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **addict** | participle | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the drinking of water; madly *property* | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent to drinking=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | man |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **swell** | past · perfect | man |  |  |  |  | in consequence to man's present girth | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in consequence=Attribute |
| 4 | **reduce** | gerund | man *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer himself=Patient |
| 5 | **fit** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | man's tree |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
| 6 | **have** | past | man | man's tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
| 7 | **whittle** | past | man *not said here* | man's tree |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Product |
| 8 | **make** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | tree |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **fit** | infinitive | tree *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 10 | **drink** |  |  | water |  |  |  |  | nom drinking «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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