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title: The redskins disappear as they have come like shadows, and soon thei… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The redskins disappear as they have come like shadows, and soon their place is taken by the beasts, a great and motley procession: lions, tigers, bears, and the innumerable smaller savage things that flee from them, for every kind of beast, and, more particularly, all the man-eaters, live cheek by j
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# Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 63

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The redskins disappear as they have come like shadows, and soon their place is taken by the beasts, a great and motley procession: lions, tigers, bears, and the innumerable smaller savage things that flee from them, for every kind of beast, and, more particularly, all the man-eaters, live cheek by jowl on the favoured island.

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**Who acts:** redskins, beasts, innumerable smaller savage things · **What happens:** disappear, come, take, flee, live, favour · **To what, where:** place, cheek

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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, beasts, innumerable smaller savage things), 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:pg16:6:63
# text = The redskins disappear as they have come like shadows, and soon their place is taken by the beasts, a great and motley procession: lions, tigers, bears, and the innumerable smaller savage things that flee from them, for every kind of beast, and, more particularly, all the man-eaters, live cheek by jowl on the favoured island.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	redskins	redskin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	disappear	disappear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	motley	motley	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
27	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
35	innumerable	innumerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
36	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	38	amod	_	_
37	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
39	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
40	flee	flee	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	46	det	_	_
46	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
52	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	53	advmod	_	_
53	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
55	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	59	det:predet	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
57	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	eaters	eater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
61	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
62	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obj	_	_
63	by	by	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	jowl	jowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	_
65	on	on	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
66	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
67	favoured	favour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	68	amod	_	_
68	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappear** | present | the redskins |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | present · perfect | redskins *= redskin* |  |  |  |  | like shadows | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | present · passive | the beasts and a great procession and lions and tigers and bears and the innumerable smaller savage things | redskins's place |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **flee** | present | the innumerable smaller savage things |  |  |  |  | from redskins *= redskin* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from they=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **live** | present | the redskins *not said here* | cheek |  |  |  | by jowl on the favoured island; particularly *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme cheek=Location |
| 6 | **favour** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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