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title: “There is one thing,” Peter continued, “that every boy who serves un… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “There is one thing,” Peter continued, “that every boy who serves under me has to promise, and so must you.” Who acts: one thing, Peter, boy. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 148

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“There is one thing,” Peter continued, “that every boy who serves under me has to promise, and so must you.”

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**Who acts:** one thing, Peter, boy · **What happens:** be, continue, serve, have, promise · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one thing, Peter, boy), 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:pg16:5:148
# text = “There is one thing,” Peter continued, “that every boy who serves under me has to promise, and so must you.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	serves	serve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | one thing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **continue** | past | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **serve** *in a quote* | present | that boy |  |  |  |  | under Peter | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | that boy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | that boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=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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