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title: They are not really friendly to Peter, who had a mischievous way of… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: They are not really friendly to Peter, who had a mischievous way of stealing up behind them and trying to blow them out; but they are so fond of fun that they were on his side to-night, and anxious to get the grown-ups out of the way. Who acts: lights, Peter, mischievous way. A sentence of «Peter Pa
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# Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 197

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They are not really friendly to Peter, who had a mischievous way of stealing up behind them and trying to blow them out; but they are so fond of fun that they were on his side to-night, and anxious to get the grown-ups out of the way.

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**Who acts:** lights, Peter, mischievous way · **What happens:** not be, have, steal up, try, blow out, be · **To what, where:** Peter, mischievous way, lights, side, grown ups, 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 (lights, Peter, mischievous way), 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:pg16:3:197
# text = They are not really friendly to Peter, who had a mischievous way of stealing up behind them and trying to blow them out; but they are so fond of fun that they were on his side to-night, and anxious to get the grown-ups out of the way.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	acl	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	_
51	out	out	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | lights *= light* |  | Peter |  |  | friendly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | Peter | a mischievous way |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient |
| 3 | **steal up** | gerund | a mischievous way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind lights *= light* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind they=Location |
| 4 | **try** | gerund | a mischievous way *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **blow out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a mischievous way *not said here* | lights *= light* |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | present | lights *= light* |  |  |  |  | of fun; fond *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | lights *= light* |  |  | father's side | night |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **be** |  | lights *= light* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **get** | to-infinitive | lights *= light* *not said here* | the grown ups |  | the way |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer up=Stimulus |
| 10 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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