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title: Next day, however, she was awfully tender, and gave out bandages to… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Next day, however, she was awfully tender, and gave out bandages to every one, and they played till bed-time at limping about and carrying their arms in slings. Who acts: Next day, awfully tender, bandages. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, with its dependency tr
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# Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 49

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Next day, however, she was awfully tender, and gave out bandages to every one, and they played till bed-time at limping about and carrying their arms in slings.

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**Who acts:** Next day, awfully tender, bandages · **What happens:** be, give out, play, limp, carry · **To what, where:** awfully tender, bandages, one, arms, slings

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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 (Next day, awfully tender, bandages), 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:pg16:10:49
# text = Next day, however, she was awfully tender, and gave out bandages to every one, and they played till bed-time at limping about and carrying their arms in slings.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	awfully	awfully	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tender	tender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	bandages	bandage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	till	till	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	limping	limp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
28	about	about	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	slings	sling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Next day | awfully tender |  |  |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give out** | past | awfully tender *not said here* | bandages | every one |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bandage=Theme to one=Recipient |
| 3 | **play** | past | bandages *= bandage* |  |  |  | time |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **limp** | gerund | bandages *= bandage* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **carry** | gerund | bandages *= bandage* *not said here* | bandages's arms |  | slings |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent arm=Value in sling=Location |

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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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