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title: Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true. Who acts: terrified three, island, same island. 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 190

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Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.

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**Who acts:** terrified three, island, same island · **What happens:** do, learn, believe, come · **To what, where:** difference

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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 (terrified three, island, same island), 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:pg16:5:190
# text = Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	sharply	sharply	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
7	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	between	between	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	make	make	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | the terrified three *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sharply, thus *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **learn** | present | the terrified three | the difference |  |  |  | between a island | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difference=Topic |
| 3 | **believe** | infinitive | a island *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **come** | present | the same island |  |  |  |  | true *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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