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title: They said “How-do?” to them, and things like that; and what annoyed… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: They said “How-do?” to them, and things like that; and what annoyed the boys was that Peter seemed to think this all right. Who acts: pirates, Peter. 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 13

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They said “How-do?” to them, and things like that; and what annoyed the boys was that Peter seemed to think this all right.

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**Who acts:** pirates, Peter · **What happens:** say, do, be, seem, think · **To what, where:** things, pirates, this · **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 (pirates, Peter), 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:pg16:11:13
# text = They said “How-do?” to them, and things like that; and what annoyed the boys was that Peter seemed to think this all right.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj	_	_
19	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	obj	_	_
29	all	all	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | pirates *= pirate* | things like that |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | pirates *= pirate* |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | annoyed *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **seem** | past | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Peter *not said here* | this |  |  |  | right *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot this=Theme |

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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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