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title: “And even though we became good at picking up food, see how we bump… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “And even though we became good at picking up food, see how we bump against clouds and things if he is not near to give us a hand.” Who acts: we, thing. 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 38

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“And even though we became good at picking up food, see how we bump against clouds and things if he is not near to give us a hand.”

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**Who acts:** we, thing · **What happens:** become, pick up, see, bump, not be, give · **To what, where:** food, clouds, hand, us · **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 (we, thing), 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:pg16:5:38
# text = “And even though we became good at picking up food, see how we bump against clouds and things if he is not near to give us a hand.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	picking	pick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	bump	bump	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	against	against	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	iobj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** *in a quote* | past | we |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **pick up** *in a quote* | gerund | we *not said here* | food |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **bump** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  | clouds and things |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against cloud=Location |
| 5 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | thing |  |  |  |  | near *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **give** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | thing *not said here* | a hand | us |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient hand=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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