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title: Or “(1) Describe Mother’s laugh; (2) Describe Father’s laugh; (3) De… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Or “(1) Describe Mother’s laugh; (2) Describe Father’s laugh; (3) Describe Mother’s Party Dress; (4) Describe the Kennel and its Inmate.” Who acts: 1, 3, 4, Mother. 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
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 51

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Or “(1) Describe Mother’s laugh; (2) Describe Father’s laugh; (3) Describe Mother’s Party Dress; (4) Describe the Kennel and its Inmate.”

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**Who acts:** 1, 3, 4, Mother, Describe Father · **What happens:** describe, laugh · **To what, where:** laugh, Party Dress, Kennel

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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 (1, 3, 4, Mother), 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:pg16:8:51
# text = Or “(1) Describe Mother’s laugh; (2) Describe Father’s laugh; (3) Describe Mother’s Party Dress; (4) Describe the Kennel and its Inmate.”
1	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	Describe	Describe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	Describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
23	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	Party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
31	Describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Kennel	kennel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	Inmate	inmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** *in a quote* | infinitive | 1 | Mother's laugh |  |  |  | 2 *obl* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent laugh=Theme |
| 2 | **describe** *in a quote* | infinitive | 3 | Mother's Party Dress |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent dress=Theme |
| 3 | **describe** *in a quote* | infinitive | 4 | the Kennel and Dress's Inmate |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent kennel=Theme |
| 4 | **laugh** *in a quote* |  | Mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom laugh «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **laugh** *in a quote* |  | Describe Father |  |  |  |  |  | nom laugh «communication intransitive»: poss=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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