--- title: But you simply must fit, and Peter measures you for your tree as car… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: But you simply must fit, and Peter measures you for your tree as carefully as for a suit of clothes: the only difference being that the clothes are made to fit you, while you have to be made to fit the tree. Who acts: you, Peter, only difference. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Peter Pan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/) / [Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/) / 5 # Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 5 But you simply must fit, and Peter measures you for your tree as carefully as for a suit of clothes: the only difference being that the clothes are made to fit you, while you have to be made to fit the tree. **Who acts:** you, Peter, only difference · **What happens:** fit, measure, make, have · **To what, where:** you, only difference, tree 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, Peter, only difference), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg16:8:5 # text = But you simply must fit, and Peter measures you for your tree as carefully as for a suit of clothes: the only difference being that the clothes are made to fit you, while you have to be made to fit the tree. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 simply simply ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 fit fit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 Peter Peter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 measures measure VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 19 cc _ _ 15 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 14 fixed _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 suit suit NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 difference difference NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 aux:pass _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 fit fit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 while while SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 xcomp _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 fit fit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fit** | must | you | | | | | simply *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **measure** | present | Peter | you | | | | for your tree | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme you=Value | | 3 | **make** | gerund · passive | | the only difference | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **fit** | to-infinitive | the only difference *not said here* | you | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | | 5 | **have** | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **make** | to-infinitive · passive | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **fit** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the tree | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/6/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/)