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title: Let us pretend to lie here among the sugar-cane and watch them as th… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Let us pretend to lie here among the sugar-cane and watch them as they steal by in single file, each with his hand on his dagger. Who acts: you, us, boys. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 11

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Let us pretend to lie here among the sugar-cane and watch them as they steal by in single file, each with his hand on his dagger.

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**Who acts:** you, us, boys · **What happens:** let, pretend, lie, watch, steal · **To what, where:** us, sugar cane, boys

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, boys), 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:pg16:6:11
# text = Let us pretend to lie here among the sugar-cane and watch them as they steal by in single file, each with his hand on his dagger.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	cane	cane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	steal	steal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	file	file	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	appos	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	dagger	dagger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pretend** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie** | to-infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  | the sugar cane; here |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among cane=Location |
| 4 | **watch** | infinitive | us *not said here* | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **steal** | present | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  | by single file | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by file=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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