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title: This so inflated them that they did various dodgy things to get stay… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: This so inflated them that they did various dodgy things to get staying up still longer, such as demanding bandages; but Wendy, though glorying in having them all home again safe and sound, was scandalised by the lateness of the hour, and cried, “To bed, to bed,” in a voice that had to be obeyed. Wh
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# Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 48

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This so inflated them that they did various dodgy things to get staying up still longer, such as demanding bandages; but Wendy, though glorying in having them all home again safe and sound, was scandalised by the lateness of the hour, and cried, “To bed, to bed,” in a voice that had to be obeyed.

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**Who acts:** This, adventures, various dodgy things, lateness, voice · **What happens:** inflate, do, get, stay up, demand, glory · **To what, where:** adventures, voice, various dodgy things, bandages, bed

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, adventures, various dodgy things, lateness), 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:pg16:10:48
# text = This so inflated them that they did various dodgy things to get staying up still longer, such as demanding bandages; but Wendy, though glorying in having them all home again safe and sound, was scandalised by the lateness of the hour, and cried, “To bed, to bed,” in a voice that had to be obeyed.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	inflated	inflate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	20	mark	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	demanding	demand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	conj	_	_
21	bandages	bandage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	glorying	glory	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
28	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
32	home	home	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	again	again	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
36	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	scandalised	scandalis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	lateness	lateness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	To	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
61	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	62	nsubj	_	_
62	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	acl:relcl	_	_
63	to	to	PART	TO	_	65	mark	_	_
64	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	65	aux:pass	_	_
65	obeyed	obey	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	62	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inflate** | past | This | adventures *= adventure* |  | a voice |  | Wendy *obl* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | past | adventures *= adventure* | various dodgy things |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | adventures *= adventure* *not said here* | various dodgy things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **stay up** | gerund | various dodgy things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **demand** *speech: request* | gerund | various dodgy things *not said here* | bandages |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bandage=Precondition |
| 6 | **glory** | gerund | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **have** | gerund | This *not said here* | adventures *= adventure* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **scandalis** | past · passive | the lateness of the hour |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  |  | bed |  |  | to bed | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to bed=Recipient |
| 10 | **have** | past | a voice |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **obey** | to-infinitive · passive | a voice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP» |

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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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