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title: Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small th… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. Who acts: Fairies. 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 201

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Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

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**Who acts:** Fairies · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** one thing, room

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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 (Fairies), 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:pg16:5:201
# text = Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.
1	Fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Fairies |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Fairies *not said here* | one thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Fairies *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | gerund | fairies *= fairy* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | present | fairies *= fairy* | room |  |  | time | for one feeling; unfortunately *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient |

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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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