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title: Bringing up the rear, the place of greatest danger, comes Tiger Lily… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Bringing up the rear, the place of greatest danger, comes Tiger Lily, proudly erect, a princess in her own right. Who acts: Bringing. 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 57

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Bringing up the rear, the place of greatest danger, comes Tiger Lily, proudly erect, a princess in her own right.

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**Who acts:** Bringing · **What happens:** bring up, come · **To what, where:** rear, Tiger Lily

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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 (Bringing), 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:pg16:6:57
# text = Bringing up the rear, the place of greatest danger, comes Tiger Lily, proudly erect, a princess in her own right.
1	Bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rear	rear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	erect	erect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring up** | gerund |  | the rear |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rear=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | present | Bringing | Tiger Lily |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lily=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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