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title: When playing Follow my Leader, Peter would fly close to the water an… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: When playing Follow my Leader, Peter would fly close to the water and touch each shark’s tail in passing, just as in the street you may run your finger along an iron railing. Who acts: Peter, you. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 24

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When playing Follow my Leader, Peter would fly close to the water and touch each shark’s tail in passing, just as in the street you may run your finger along an iron railing.

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**Who acts:** Peter, you · **What happens:** play, follow, fly, touch, run · **To what, where:** Leader, tail, passing, finger, street

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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 (Peter, you), 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:pg16:5:24
# text = When playing Follow my Leader, Peter would fly close to the water and touch each shark’s tail in passing, just as in the street you may run your finger along an iron railing.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
3	Follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	Leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	touch	touch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	passing	passing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	just	just	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	along	along	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	railing	railing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | gerund | Peter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **follow** | infinitive | Peter *not said here* | my Leader |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** | would | Peter |  |  |  |  | to the water *result*; close *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to water=Result |
| 4 | **touch** | present | Peter *not said here* | each shark's tail |  | passing |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tail=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **run** | may | you | your finger |  | the street |  | along a iron railing | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent finger=Theme in street=Trajectory along railing=Initial\_Location |

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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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