--- title: “I shall sew it on for you, my little man,” she said, though he was… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: “I shall sew it on for you, my little man,” she said, though he was tall as herself, and she got out her housewife, and sewed the shadow on to Peter’s foot. Who acts: right, man. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/4/65/) [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/) / 65 # Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 65 “I shall sew it on for you, my little man,” she said, though he was tall as herself, and she got out her housewife, and sewed the shadow on to Peter’s foot. **Who acts:** right, man · **What happens:** sew on, say, be, get out · **To what, where:** ignorance, housewife, shadow · **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 (right, man), 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:pg16:4:65 # text = “I shall sew it on for you, my little man,” she said, though he was tall as herself, and she got out her housewife, and sewed the shadow on to Peter’s foot. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 sew sew VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 on on ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 though though SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 ccomp _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 28 out out ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 housewife housewife NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 sewed sew VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 shadow shadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 on on ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 Peter Peter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ’s 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sew on** *in a quote* | shall | right | ignorance | | | | for you; my little man *vocative* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for you=Beneficiary | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | right | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **is** | past | man | | | | | as right; tall *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **get out** | past | right | right's housewife | | | | out *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **sew on** | past | right *not said here* | the shadow | | | | to Peter's foot | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent shadow=Patient to foot=Co-Patient | 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. 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. - ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/4/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/4/66/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/4/)