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title: It was rough and simple, and not unlike what baby bears would have m… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: It was rough and simple, and not unlike what baby bears would have made of an underground house in the same circumstances. Who acts: signal. 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 18

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It was rough and simple, and not unlike what baby bears would have made of an underground house in the same circumstances.

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**Who acts:** signal · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** baby bears, same circumstances

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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 (signal), 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:pg16:8:18
# text = It was rough and simple, and not unlike what baby bears would have made of an underground house in the same circumstances.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	unlike	unlike	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	parataxis	_	_
11	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | signal |  |  |  |  | rough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | signal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | would · perfect · passive |  | baby bears |  | the same circumstances |  | of a underground house | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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