--- title: “No. You see children know such a lot now, they soon don’t believe i… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: “No. You see children know such a lot now, they soon don’t believe in fairies, and every time a child says, ‘I don’t believe in fairies,’ there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.” Who acts: You, children, child, fairy. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME A --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/4/113/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Peter Pan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/) / [Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/4/) / 113 # Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 113 “No. You see children know such a lot now, they soon don’t believe in fairies, and every time a child says, ‘I don’t believe in fairies,’ there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.” **Who acts:** You, children, child, fairy · **What happens:** see, know, not believe, say, be, fall down · **To what, where:** lot · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, children, child, fairy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg16:4:113 # text = “No. You see children know such a lot now, they soon don’t believe in fairies, and every time a child says, ‘I don’t believe in fairies,’ there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 No. no. NOUN NN Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 5 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 7 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 9 det:predet _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 13 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ _ 14 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 15 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 fairies fairy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ _ 22 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 30 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 fairies fairy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 36 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 37 expl _ _ 37 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 40 somewhere somewhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 42 advmod _ _ 41 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 nsubj _ _ 42 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 ccomp _ _ 43 down down ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ _ 44 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ” " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present | You | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | children | such lot | | | now | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer lot=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **believe** *in a quote* | present · do-support | children *= child* | | | | | in fairies; soon *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | a child | | | | time | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **believe** *in a quote* | present · do-support | a child *= child* | | | | | in fairies | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **be** *in a quote* | present | | | | there | | | tree rules | | 7 | **fall down** *in a quote* | present | a fairy | | | | | dead, somewhere *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **Text:** «Peter Pan» by J. 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