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title: The fact is that they are all a little fat just now after the heavy… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The fact is that they are all a little fat just now after the heavy gorging, but in time they will work this off. Who acts: fact, sound. 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 61

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The fact is that they are all a little fat just now after the heavy gorging, but in time they will work this off.

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**Who acts:** fact, sound · **What happens:** be, gorge, work off · **To what, where:** little fat, this

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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 (fact, sound), 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:pg16:6:61
# text = The fact is that they are all a little fat just now after the heavy gorging, but in time they will work this off.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:outer	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
13	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
16	gorging	gorge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
24	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	obj	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the fact | a little fat |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **gorge** | gerund | the fact *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work off** | future | sound | this |  |  | time |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent this=Material |

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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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