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title: A Never tree tried hard to grow in the centre of the room, but every… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: A Never tree tried hard to grow in the centre of the room, but every morning they sawed the trunk through, level with the floor. Who acts: tree, trees. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 12

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A Never tree tried hard to grow in the centre of the room, but every morning they sawed the trunk through, level with the floor.

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**Who acts:** tree, trees · **What happens:** try, grow, saw · **To what, where:** centre, trunk

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, trees), 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:pg16:8:12
# text = A Never tree tried hard to grow in the centre of the room, but every morning they sawed the trunk through, level with the floor.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sawed	saw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	through	through	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | a tree |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **grow** | to-infinitive | a tree *not said here* |  |  | the centre of the room |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in centre=Location |
| 3 | **saw** | past | trees *= tree* | the trunk |  |  | morning | level with the floor *obl*; through *property* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient |

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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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