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title: Unlike Slightly’s door, it filled the aperture, so that he could not… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Unlike Slightly’s door, it filled the aperture, so that he could not see beyond it, nor could the one knocking see him. Who acts: door, pity, one. 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 88

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Unlike Slightly’s door, it filled the aperture, so that he could not see beyond it, nor could the one knocking see him.

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**Who acts:** door, pity, one · **What happens:** fill, not see, knock, see · **To what, where:** aperture, pity

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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 (door, pity, one), 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:pg16:14:88
# text = Unlike Slightly’s door, it filled the aperture, so that he could not see beyond it, nor could the one knocking see him.
1	Unlike	unlike	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	aperture	aperture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	16	mark	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
17	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	24	cc	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	knocking	knock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | past | door | the aperture |  |  |  | unlike door | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent aperture=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **see** | could | pity |  |  |  |  | beyond door | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **knock** | could | the one |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive | the one *not said here* | pity |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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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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