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title: In dress he somewhat aped the attire associated with the name of Cha… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: In dress he somewhat aped the attire associated with the name of Charles II, having heard it said in some earlier period of his career that he bore a strange resemblance to the ill-fated Stuarts; and in his mouth he had a holder of his own contrivance which enabled him to smoke two cigars at once. W
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# Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 45

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In dress he somewhat aped the attire associated with the name of Charles II, having heard it said in some earlier period of his career that he bore a strange resemblance to the ill-fated Stuarts; and in his mouth he had a holder of his own contrivance which enabled him to smoke two cigars at once.

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**Who acts:** man, attire, own contrivance · **What happens:** ape, associate, have, hear, say, bear · **To what, where:** attire, dress, earlier period, strange resemblance, holder, mouth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (man, attire, own contrivance), 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:pg16:6:45
# text = In dress he somewhat aped the attire associated with the name of Charles II, having heard it said in some earlier period of his career that he bore a strange resemblance to the ill-fated Stuarts; and in his mouth he had a holder of his own contrivance which enabled him to smoke two cigars at once.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	aped	ape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	attire	attire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	associated	associate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
17	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
22	earlier	early	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
23	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	career	career	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
35	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	fated	fated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	Stuarts	stuart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	holder	holder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
50	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	contrivance	contrivance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
52	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	53	nsubj	_	_
53	enabled	enable	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	acl:relcl	_	_
54	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	_
55	to	to	PART	TO	_	56	mark	_	_
56	smoke	smoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	advcl	_	_
57	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	58	nummod	_	_
58	cigars	cigar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obj	_	_
59	at	at	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ape** | past | man | the attire |  | dress |  | somewhat *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **associate** | participle |  | the attire *not said here* |  |  |  | with the name of Charles | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with name=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hear** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | attire |  |  | some earlier period of man's career |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in period=Manner |
| 6 | **bear** | past | man | a strange resemblance |  |  |  | to the fated Stuarts | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resemblance=Patient |
| 7 | **have** | past | man | a holder of man's own contrivance |  | man's mouth |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holder=Patient |
| 8 | **enable** | past | man's own contrivance | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **smoke** | to-infinitive | man's own contrivance *not said here* | two cigars |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent cigar=Source |
| 10 | **name** |  |  | Charles |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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