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title: To be sure, she did not mind noise, but she simply would not have th… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: To be sure, she did not mind noise, but she simply would not have them grabbing things, and then excusing themselves by saying that Tootles had pushed their elbow. Who acts: meal, children. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 21

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To be sure, she did not mind noise, but she simply would not have them grabbing things, and then excusing themselves by saying that Tootles had pushed their elbow.

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**Who acts:** meal, children · **What happens:** be, not mind, not have, grab, excuse, say · **To what, where:** noise, children, things, Tootles · **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 (meal, children), 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:pg16:11:21
# text = To be sure, she did not mind noise, but she simply would not have them grabbing things, and then excusing themselves by saying that Tootles had pushed their elbow.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
9	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	grabbing	grab	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	_
19	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
23	excusing	excuse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
24	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	Tootles	tootle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	ccomp	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	elbow	elbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **mind** | past · do-support | meal | noise |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **have** | would | meal | children *= child* |  |  |  | simply *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **grab** | gerund | children *= child* *not said here* | things |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 5 | **excuse** | gerund | meal *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  | then |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | meal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **push** | past · perfect · passive |  | Tootles |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme elbow=Destination |

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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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