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title: To prevent Peter ordering babies they hurried into song again: — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: To prevent Peter ordering babies they hurried into song again: Who acts: babies. 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 169

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To prevent Peter ordering babies they hurried into song again:

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**Who acts:** babies · **What happens:** prevent, order, hurry · **To what, where:** Peter, song, ordering babies

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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 (babies), 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:pg16:7:169
# text = To prevent Peter ordering babies they hurried into song again:
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	ordering	order	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevent** | to-infinitive |  | Peter |  | song | again |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **order** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hurry** | past | babies *= baby* | ordering babies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=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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