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title: Always when he said, “Peter Pan has spoken,” it meant that they must… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Always when he said, “Peter Pan has spoken,” it meant that they must now shut up, and they accepted it humbly in that spirit; but they were by no means so respectful to the other boys, whom they looked upon as just ordinary braves. Who acts: Tiger, it, pirates. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Bar
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# Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 12

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Always when he said, “Peter Pan has spoken,” it meant that they must now shut up, and they accepted it humbly in that spirit; but they were by no means so respectful to the other boys, whom they looked upon as just ordinary braves.

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**Who acts:** Tiger, it, pirates · **What happens:** say, speak, mean, shut up, accept, be · **To what, where:** Peter, way, spirit, other boys · **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 (Tiger, it, pirates), 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:pg16:11:12
# text = Always when he said, “Peter Pan has spoken,” it meant that they must now shut up, and they accepted it humbly in that spirit; but they were by no means so respectful to the other boys, whom they looked upon as just ordinary braves.
1	Always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	Pan	Pan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	shut	shut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	humbly	humbly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
33	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	parataxis	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	obl	_	_
36	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
37	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	respectful	respectful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	46	obj	_	_
45	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	_
47	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
48	as	as	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	just	just	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
50	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	braves	brave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tiger |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | Peter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **shut up** | must | pirates *= pirate* |  |  |  | now |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **accept** | past | pirates *= pirate* | way |  | that spirit |  | humbly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **be** | past |  |  |  |  |  | by no | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by no=Location |
| 7 | **mean** | present | pirates *= pirate* |  |  |  |  | respectful *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **look** | past | pirates *= pirate* | the other boys |  |  |  | upon ordinary braves | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme whom=Attribute |

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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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