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title: It was a girl called Tinker Bell exquisitely gowned in a skeleton le… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a girl called Tinker Bell exquisitely gowned in a skeleton leaf, cut low and square, through which her figure could be seen to the best advantage. Who acts: three, Bell. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 5

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It was a girl called Tinker Bell exquisitely gowned in a skeleton leaf, cut low and square, through which her figure could be seen to the best advantage.

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**Who acts:** three, Bell · **What happens:** be, call, gown, cut, square, see · **To what, where:** girl, skeleton leaf, figure · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (three, Bell), 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:pg16:4:5
# text = It was a girl called Tinker Bell exquisitely gowned in a skeleton leaf, cut low and square, through which her figure could be seen to the best advantage.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	Tinker	Tinker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Bell	Bell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
8	exquisitely	exquisitely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	gowned	gown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	square	square	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	amod	_	_
30	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | three | a girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | a girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **gown** | participle |  | a girl *not said here* |  | a skeleton leaf |  | exquisitely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **cut** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | low *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **square** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **see** | could · passive |  | Bell's figure |  |  |  | to the best advantage | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 7 | **figure** |  | Bell |  |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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