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# Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 27

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Peter never quite knew what twins were, and his band were not allowed to know anything he did not know, so these two were always vague about themselves, and did their best to give satisfaction by keeping close together in an apologetic sort of way.

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**Who acts:** Peter, band, two · **What happens:** not know, not allow, know, be, do, give · **To what, where:** band, anything, best, satisfaction, apologetic sort, way

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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, band, two), 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:pg16:6:27
# text = Peter never quite knew what twins were, and his band were not allowed to know anything he did not know, so these two were always vague about themselves, and did their best to give satisfaction by keeping close together in an apologetic sort of way.
1	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
6	twins	twin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
24	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	28	advmod	_	_
28	vague	vague	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
29	about	about	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	obj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
38	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
40	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	advcl	_	_
41	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	40	advmod	_	_
42	together	together	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	apologetic	apologetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | past | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **allow** | past · passive |  | Peter's band |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Peter's band *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | past | this two |  |  |  |  | about twins *= twin*; always, vague *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | past | Peter *not said here* | twins's best |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |
| 7 | **give** | to-infinitive | Peter *not said here* | satisfaction |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satisfaction=Theme |
| 8 | **keep** | gerund | Peter *not said here* |  |  | a apologetic sort of way |  | close, together *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in sort=Location |
| 9 | **sort** |  |  | way |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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