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title: By tea-time it was always about two feet high, and then they put a d… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: By tea-time it was always about two feet high, and then they put a door on top of it, the whole thus becoming a table; as soon as they cleared away, they sawed off the trunk again, and thus there was more room to play. Who acts: floor, feet. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. TH
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 13

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By tea-time it was always about two feet high, and then they put a door on top of it, the whole thus becoming a table; as soon as they cleared away, they sawed off the trunk again, and thus there was more room to play.

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**Who acts:** floor, feet · **What happens:** be, put, become, clear away, saw off, play · **To what, where:** door, top, table, trunk, high more room

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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 (floor, 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:pg16:8:13
# text = By tea-time it was always about two feet high, and then they put a door on top of it, the whole thus becoming a table; as soon as they cleared away, they sawed off the trunk again, and thus there was more room to play.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
26	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	cleared	clear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
36	away	away	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	sawed	saw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
40	off	off	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	again	again	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
47	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	48	expl	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
49	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	50	amod	_	_
50	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	50	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | floor |  |  |  | time | two feet *obl:unmarked*; always, high *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | past | feet *= foot* | a door |  | top of floor | then |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme on top=Destination |
| 3 | **become** | gerund | floor *not said here* | a table |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **clear away** | past | feet *= foot* |  |  |  |  | away, soon *property* | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |
| 5 | **saw off** | past | feet *= foot* | the trunk |  |  | again |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | high more room |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **play** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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