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title: The rock was not much larger than their great bed, but of course the… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The rock was not much larger than their great bed, but of course they all knew how not to take up much room, and they were dozing, or at least lying with their eyes shut, and pinching occasionally when they thought Wendy was not looking. Who acts: rock, children, Wendy. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by 
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 21

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The rock was not much larger than their great bed, but of course they all knew how not to take up much room, and they were dozing, or at least lying with their eyes shut, and pinching occasionally when they thought Wendy was not looking.

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**Who acts:** rock, children, Wendy · **What happens:** not be, know, not take up, doze, lie, pinch · **To what, where:** much room, least · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rock, children, Wendy), 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:pg16:9:21
# text = The rock was not much larger than their great bed, but of course they all knew how not to take up much room, and they were dozing, or at least lying with their eyes shut, and pinching occasionally when they thought Wendy was not looking.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	fixed	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	dozing	doze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	34	obl	_	_
34	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	conj	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
38	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	pinching	pinch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	conj	_	_
42	occasionally	occasionally	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	45	advmod	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
46	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
49	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	45	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | the rock |  |  |  |  | than children's great bed; large *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **take up** | to-infinitive |  | much room |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme |
| 4 | **doze** | past · progressive | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lie** | gerund | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  | least |  | with children's eyes; shut *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at least=Location |
| 6 | **pinch** | gerund | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | occasionally *property* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **think** *speech: other* | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 8 | **not** **look** | past · progressive | Wendy |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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