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title: The fairies take an hour longer in the morning, the beasts attend to… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The fairies take an hour longer in the morning, the beasts attend to their young, the redskins feed heavily for six days and nights, and when pirates and lost boys meet they merely bite their thumbs at each other. Who acts: fairies, beasts, redskins, pirates. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barri
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# Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 4

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The fairies take an hour longer in the morning, the beasts attend to their young, the redskins feed heavily for six days and nights, and when pirates and lost boys meet they merely bite their thumbs at each other.

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**Who acts:** fairies, beasts, redskins, pirates · **What happens:** take, attend, feed, lose, meet, bite · **To what, where:** thumbs, each

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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 (fairies, beasts, redskins, pirates), 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:pg16:6:4
# text = The fairies take an hour longer in the morning, the beasts attend to their young, the redskins feed heavily for six days and nights, and when pirates and lost boys meet they merely bite their thumbs at each other.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	attend	attend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	young	young	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	redskins	redskin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
29	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	34	mark	_	_
30	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
33	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
34	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	bite	bite	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	thumbs	thumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	37	obl	_	_
42	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | the fairies |  |  |  | hour; morning | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **attend** | present | the beasts |  |  |  |  | to beasts's young | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to young=Theme |
| 3 | **feed** | present | the redskins |  |  |  | day | heavily *property* | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **meet** | present | pirates and lost boys |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **bite** | present | pirates *= pirate* | beasts's thumbs |  | each |  | merely *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thumb=Patient at each=Location |

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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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