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title: But I refuse to allow that dog to lord it in my nursery for an hour… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: But I refuse to allow that dog to lord it in my nursery for an hour longer.” Who acts: I. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 166

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But I refuse to allow that dog to lord it in my nursery for an hour longer.”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** refuse, not allow, lord · **To what, where:** dog, nursery

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg16:3:166
# text = But I refuse to allow that dog to lord it in my nursery for an hour longer.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	refuse	refuse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	iobj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	lord	lord	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **allow** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  | that dog |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer dog=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **lord** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | dog |  | my nursery | hour | long *property* | 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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