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title: “(A) Write an essay of not less than 40 words on How I spent my last… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “(A) Write an essay of not less than 40 words on How I spent my last Holidays, or The Characters of Father and Mother compared. Who acts: you, boys, Characters. 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 cla
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 49

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“(A) Write an essay of not less than 40 words on How I spent my last Holidays, or The Characters of Father and Mother compared.

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**Who acts:** you, boys, Characters · **What happens:** write, spend, compare, essay · **To what, where:** essay, last Holidays, 40 words

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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 (you, boys, Characters), 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:pg16:8:49
# text = “(A) Write an essay of not less than 40 words on How I spent my last Holidays, or The Characters of Father and Mother compared.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Write	write	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	essay	essay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	12	advmod	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
14	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Holidays	holiday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Characters	Character	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	compared	compare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | a essay of 40 words |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent essay=Theme |
| 2 | **spend** *in a quote* | past | boys *= boy* | my last Holidays |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holiday=Asset |
| 3 | **compare** *in a quote* | past | the Characters of Father and Mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **essay** *in a quote* |  |  | 40 words |  |  |  |  | nom essay «communication transitive»: of=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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