--- title: The meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat around the… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: The meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat around the board, guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was positively deafening. Who acts: meal, children, Wendy. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE H --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/11/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Peter Pan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/) / [Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/11/) / 20 # Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 20 The meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat around the board, guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was positively deafening. **Who acts:** meal, children, Wendy · **What happens:** happen, be, believe, sit, guzzle, say · **To what, where:** make, tea, board, greed · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (meal, children, Wendy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg16:11:20 # text = The meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat around the board, guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was positively deafening. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 make make NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 believe believe VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 10 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 15 around around ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 guzzling guzzle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 greed greed NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 really really ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 parataxis _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 chatter chatter NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 recriminations recrimination NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 as as SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 Wendy Wendy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 positively positively ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 deafening deafen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | the meal | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | | a make | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **believe** | infinitive | | tea | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tea=Stimulus | | 4 | **sit** | past | children *= child* | | | the board | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around board=Location | | 5 | **guzzle** | gerund | children *= child* *not said here* | | | children's greed | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Wendy | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **deafen** | past · progressive | | | | | | positively *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **chatter** | | children *= child* | | | | | | nom chatter «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/11/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/11/21/) - ↑ back to [Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/11/)