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title: “You see,” he continued apologetically, “it would make me seem so ol… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “You see,” he continued apologetically, “it would make me seem so old to be their real father.” Who acts: You, Wendy, change. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 110

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“You see,” he continued apologetically, “it would make me seem so old to be their real father.”

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**Who acts:** You, Wendy, change · **What happens:** see, continue, make, seem, be · **To what, where:** Wendy, real father · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Wendy, change), 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:pg16:11:110
# text = “You see,” he continued apologetically, “it would make me seem so old to be their real father.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	apologetically	apologetically	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **continue** | past | Wendy |  |  |  |  | apologetically *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | would | change | Wendy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **seem** *in a quote* | infinitive | Wendy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | old *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Wendy *not said here* | nighties's real father |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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