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title: They are forbidden by Peter to look in the least like him, and they… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: They are forbidden by Peter to look in the least like him, and they wear the skins of the bears slain by themselves, in which they are so round and furry that when they fall they roll. Who acts: Peter, boys. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, with its depende
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# Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 12

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They are forbidden by Peter to look in the least like him, and they wear the skins of the bears slain by themselves, in which they are so round and furry that when they fall they roll.

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**Who acts:** Peter, boys · **What happens:** forbid, look, wear, slay, be, fall · **To what, where:** boys, skins, bears

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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 (Peter, 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:pg16:6:12
# text = They are forbidden by Peter to look in the least like him, and they wear the skins of the bears slain by themselves, in which they are so round and furry that when they fall they roll.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	forbidden	forbid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	obl	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	furry	furry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	37	mark	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	roll	roll	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forbid** | present · passive | Peter | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | Peter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the least | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in least=Theme |
| 3 | **wear** | present | boys *= boy* | the skins of the bears |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent skin=Source |
| 4 | **slay** | participle |  | the bears *not said here* |  |  |  | by boys *= boy* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | boys *= boy* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **fall** | present | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **roll** | present | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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