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title: But with the coming of Peter, who hates lethargy, they are under way… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: But with the coming of Peter, who hates lethargy, they are under way again: if you put your ear to the ground now, you would hear the whole island seething with life. Who acts: redskins, Peter, you, whole island. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, with its de
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# Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 5

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But with the coming of Peter, who hates lethargy, they are under way again: if you put your ear to the ground now, you would hear the whole island seething with life.

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**Who acts:** redskins, Peter, you, whole island · **What happens:** come, hate, be, put, hear, seethe · **To what, where:** lethargy, way, ear, whole island

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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 (redskins, Peter, you, whole island), 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:pg16:6:5
# text = But with the coming of Peter, who hates lethargy, they are under way again: if you put your ear to the ground now, you would hear the whole island seething with life.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	hates	hate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	lethargy	lethargy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	put	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	seething	seethe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund | redskins *= redskin* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Peter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of peter=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **hate** | present | Peter | lethargy |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lethargy=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | redskins *= redskin* |  |  | way | again |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **put** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | your ear |  |  | now | to the ground | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ear=Goal |
| 5 | **hear** | would | you | the whole island |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer island=Stimulus |
| 6 | **seethe** | gerund | the whole island *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with life | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location with life=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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