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description: As dogs this terrible man treated and addressed them, and as dogs they obeyed him. Who acts: terrible man, dogs. 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 39

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As dogs this terrible man treated and addressed them, and as dogs they obeyed him.

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**Who acts:** terrible man, dogs · **What happens:** treat, address, obey · **To what, where:** dogs, man

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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 (terrible man, dogs), 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:pg16:6:39
# text = As dogs this terrible man treated and addressed them, and as dogs they obeyed him.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	treated	treat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	obeyed	obey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treat** | past | this terrible man |  |  |  |  | as dogs | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent as dog=Attribute |
| 2 | **address** | past | this terrible man *not said here* | dogs *= dog* |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination |
| 3 | **obey** | past | dogs *= dog* | man |  |  |  | as dogs | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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