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title: “We’ve built the little walls and roof And made a lovely door, So te… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “We’ve built the little walls and roof And made a lovely door, So tell us, mother Wendy, What are you wanting more?” Who acts: you. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 161

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“We’ve built the little walls and roof And made a lovely door, So tell us, mother Wendy, What are you wanting more?”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** build, make, tell, want · **To what, where:** We, lovely door, mother, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg16:7:161
# text = “We’ve built the little walls and roof And made a lovely door, So tell us, mother Wendy, What are you wanting more?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’ve	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	So	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
18	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	obj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
27	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | We |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary wall=Product |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | past |  | a lovely door |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset door=Product |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  | mother | us |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient mother=Topic |
| 4 | **want** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you | mother |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme more=Attribute |

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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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