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title: But in her dream he had rent the film that obscures the Neverland, a… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: But in her dream he had rent the film that obscures the Neverland, and she saw Wendy and John and Michael peeping through the gap. Who acts: dog, film, adventure, Wendy. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 133

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But in her dream he had rent the film that obscures the Neverland, and she saw Wendy and John and Michael peeping through the gap.

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**Who acts:** dog, film, adventure, Wendy · **What happens:** rend, obscure, see, peep, dream · **To what, where:** film, dream, Neverland, Wendy

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, film, adventure, 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:pg16:2:133
# text = But in her dream he had rent the film that obscures the Neverland, and she saw Wendy and John and Michael peeping through the gap.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	rent	rend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	obscures	obscure	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Neverland	Neverland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	peeping	peep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	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 | **rend** | past · perfect | dog | the film |  | adventure's dream |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Patient |
| 2 | **obscure** | present | the film | the Neverland |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neverland=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | past | adventure | Wendy and John and Michael |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **peep** | gerund | Wendy and John and Michael *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through the gap | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through gap=Theme |
| 5 | **dream** |  | adventure |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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