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title: It is quite the most successful way of defying wolves, and as one bo… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: It is quite the most successful way of defying wolves, and as one boy they bent and looked through their legs. Who acts: leaf, successful way, wolves. 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 183

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It is quite the most successful way of defying wolves, and as one boy they bent and looked through their legs.

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**Who acts:** leaf, successful way, wolves · **What happens:** be, defy, bend, look · **To what, where:** successful way, wolves

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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 (leaf, successful way, wolves), 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:pg16:6:183
# text = It is quite the most successful way of defying wolves, and as one boy they bent and looked through their legs.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	7	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	defying	defy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | leaf | quite successful way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **defy** | gerund | quite successful way *not said here* | wolves |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bend** | past | wolves *= wolf* |  |  |  |  | as one boy | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | past | wolves *= wolf* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through wolves's legs | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through leg=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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