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title: Here, a little in advance, ever and again with his head to the groun… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Here, a little in advance, ever and again with his head to the ground listening, his great arms bare, pieces of eight in his ears as ornaments, is the handsome Italian Cecco, who cut his name in letters of blood on the back of the governor of the prison at Gao. Who acts: handsome Italian Cecco, Pete
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# Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 32

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Here, a little in advance, ever and again with his head to the ground listening, his great arms bare, pieces of eight in his ears as ornaments, is the handsome Italian Cecco, who cut his name in letters of blood on the back of the governor of the prison at Gao.

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**Who acts:** handsome Italian Cecco, Peter · **What happens:** be, listen, cut, name, letter · **To what, where:** advance, name, letters, blood

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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 (handsome Italian Cecco, Peter), 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:pg16:6:32
# text = Here, a little in advance, ever and again with his head to the ground listening, his great arms bare, pieces of eight in his ears as ornaments, is the handsome Italian Cecco, who cut his name in letters of blood on the back of the governor of the prison at Gao.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	advance	advance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	1	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
17	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nmod	_	_
27	in	in	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	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	Italian	Italian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Cecco	Cecco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
40	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
47	on	on	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	_
56	at	at	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	Gao	Gao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the handsome Italian Cecco |  |  | advance |  | with Peter's head; to the ground; a little *obl:unmarked*; here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **listen** | gerund | the handsome Italian Cecco *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cut** | past | the handsome Italian Cecco | Peter's name |  | letters of blood |  | on the back of the governor of the prison at Gao | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Product |
| 4 | **name** |  | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **letter** |  |  | blood |  |  |  |  | nom letter «communication 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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