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title: Secretly Wendy sympathised with them a little, but she was far too l… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Secretly Wendy sympathised with them a little, but she was far too loyal a housewife to listen to any complaints against father. Who acts: 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 14

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Secretly Wendy sympathised with them a little, but she was far too loyal a housewife to listen to any complaints against father.

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**Who acts:** Peter · **What happens:** sympathis, be, listen · **To what, where:** little

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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 (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:pg16:11:14
# text = Secretly Wendy sympathised with them a little, but she was far too loyal a housewife to listen to any complaints against father.
1	Secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sympathised	sympathis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	loyal	loyal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	housewife	housewife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	complaints	complaint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	against	against	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	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 | **sympathis** | participle |  | a little |  |  |  | with pirates *= pirate*; secretly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Peter |  |  |  |  | far, loyal *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **listen** | to-infinitive | Peter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to any complaints against father | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to complaint=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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