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title: In the van, on all fours, is Great Big Little Panther, a brave of so… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: In the van, on all fours, is Great Big Little Panther, a brave of so many scalps that in his present position they somewhat impede his progress. Who acts: many scalps, body. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 56

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In the van, on all fours, is Great Big Little Panther, a brave of so many scalps that in his present position they somewhat impede his progress.

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**Who acts:** many scalps, body · **What happens:** be, impede, progress · **To what, where:** Great Big Little Panther, van, progress, present position

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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 (many scalps, body), 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:pg16:6:56
# text = In the van, on all fours, is Great Big Little Panther, a brave of so many scalps that in his present position they somewhat impede his progress.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	van	van	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	fours	four	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	scalps	scalp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	impede	impede	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	progress	progress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Great Big Little Panther |  | the van and all fours |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **impede** | present | many scalps | body's progress |  | body's present position |  | somewhat *property* | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer progress=Eventuality |
| 3 | **progress** |  | body |  |  |  |  |  | nom progress «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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