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title: “Oh, no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their p… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.” Who acts: you, girls. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 157

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“Oh, no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.”

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**Who acts:** you, girls · **What happens:** know, be, fall · **To what, where:** girls, prams

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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, girls), 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:pg16:4:157
# text = “Oh, no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	much	much	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	prams	pram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** *in a quote* | present | you | girls *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | girls |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | girls *not said here* |  |  | Gardens's prams |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out pram=Location |

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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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