--- title: That is a pretty story, and the end shows how grateful a bird can be… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: That is a pretty story, and the end shows how grateful a bird can be; but if we tell it we must also tell the whole adventure of the lagoon, which would of course be telling two adventures rather than just one. Who acts: That, end, we, whole adventure. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chap --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/81/) [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/) / 81 # Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 81 That is a pretty story, and the end shows how grateful a bird can be; but if we tell it we must also tell the whole adventure of the lagoon, which would of course be telling two adventures rather than just one. **Who acts:** That, end, we, whole adventure · **What happens:** be, show, tell, adventure · **To what, where:** pretty story, end, two adventures, lagoon · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (That, end, we, whole adventure), 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:pg16:8:81 # text = That is a pretty story, and the end shows how grateful a bird can be; but if we tell it we must also tell the whole adventure of the lagoon, which would of course be telling two adventures rather than just one. 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 11 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 12 grateful grateful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 ccomp _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 19 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 also also ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 adventure adventure NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 lagoon lagoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 35 obl _ _ 37 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 aux _ _ 39 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 ccomp _ _ 40 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 adventures adventure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 42 rather rather ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 45 cc _ _ 43 than than ADP IN _ 42 fixed _ _ 44 just just ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | That | a pretty story | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **show** | present | the end | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | infinitive | | | | | | grateful *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | we | | end | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | must | we | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | would · progressive | the whole adventure of the lagoon | two adventures | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adventure=Recipient | | 7 | **adventure** | | | the lagoon | | | | | nom adventure «act transitive»: of=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 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/82/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/)