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title: Come inside at once, you naughty children; I am sure your feet are d… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Come inside at once, you naughty children; I am sure your feet are damp. Who acts: you, I, feet. 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 213

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Come inside at once, you naughty children; I am sure your feet are damp.

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**Who acts:** you, I, feet · **What happens:** come, child, be

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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, I, feet), 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:pg16:7:213
# text = Come inside at once, you naughty children; I am sure your feet are damp.
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	naughty	naughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 2 | **child** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | your feet |  |  |  |  | damp *property* | 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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