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title: There was a step above, and Wendy, you may be sure, was the first to… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a step above, and Wendy, you may be sure, was the first to recognize it. Who acts: step, you, Wendy. 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 68

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There was a step above, and Wendy, you may be sure, was the first to recognize it.

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**Who acts:** step, you, Wendy · **What happens:** be, recognize · **To what, where:** step

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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 (step, you, Wendy), 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:pg16:11:68
# text = There was a step above, and Wendy, you may be sure, was the first to recognize it.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	above	above	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
8	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	recognize	recognize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a step |  |  | there |  | above *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | may | you |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Wendy |  |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **recognize** | to-infinitive |  | step |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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