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title: No. 27 was only a few yards distant, but there had been a slight fal… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: No. 27 was only a few yards distant, but there had been a slight fall of snow, and Father and Mother Darling picked their way over it deftly not to soil their shoes. Who acts: No., slight fall. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 192

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No. 27 was only a few yards distant, but there had been a slight fall of snow, and Father and Mother Darling picked their way over it deftly not to soil their shoes.

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**Who acts:** No., slight fall · **What happens:** be, pick · **To what, where:** slight fall, way

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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 (No., slight fall), 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:pg16:3:192
# text = No. 27 was only a few yards distant, but there had been a slight fall of snow, and Father and Mother Darling picked their way over it deftly not to soil their shoes.
1	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	27	27	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	slight	slight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
30	deftly	deftly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	TO	_	33	case	_	_
33	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | No. |  |  |  |  | distant *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | participle |  | a slight fall |  |  |  | of snow | tree rules |
| 3 | **pick** | past | a slight fall | lights's way |  |  |  | over yard; to soil; deftly *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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