--- title: Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY — Peter Pan · full text with trees description: Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: “Listen, then,” said Wendy, settling down to her story, with Michael at her feet and seven boys in the bed. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/) [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 XI. WENDY’S STORY # Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie: the whole text, 192 sentences and 2352 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 1 of them are in the tales treebank and were checked by a teacher model. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/page/2/) - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/1/) — “Listen, then,” said Wendy, settling down to her story, with Michael at her feet and seven boys in the bed. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/2/) — “There was once a gentleman—” - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/3/) — “I had rather he had been a lady,” Curly said. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/4/) — “I wish he had been a white rat,” said Nibs. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/5/) — “Quiet,” their mother admonished them. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/6/) — “There was a lady also, and—” - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/7/) — “Oh, mummy,” cried the first twin, “you mean that there is a lady also, don’t you? - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/8/) — She is not dead, is she?” - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/9/) — “Oh, no.” - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/10/) — “I am awfully glad she isn’t dead,” said Tootles. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/11/) — “Are you glad, John?” - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/12/) — “Of course I am.” - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/13/) — “Are you glad, Nibs?” - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/14/) — “Rather.” - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/15/) — “Are you glad, Twins?” - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/16/) — “We are glad.” - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/17/) — “Oh dear,” sighed Wendy. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/18/) — “Little less noise there,” Peter called out, determined that she should have fair play, however beastly a story it might be in his opinion. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/19/) — “The gentleman’s name,” Wendy continued, “was Mr. Darling, and her name was Mrs. Darling.” - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/20/) — “I knew them,” John said, to annoy the others. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/21/) — “I think I knew them,” said Michael rather doubtfully. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/22/) — “They were married, you know,” explained Wendy, “and what do you think they had?” - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/23/) — “White rats,” cried Nibs, inspired. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/24/) — “No.” - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/25/) — “It’s awfully puzzling,” said Tootles, who knew the story by heart. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/26/) — “Quiet, Tootles. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/27/) — They had three descendants.” - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/28/) — “What is descendants?” - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/29/) — “Well, you are one, Twin.” - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/30/) — “Did you hear that, John? - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/31/) — I am a descendant.” - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/32/) — “Descendants are only children,” said John. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/33/) — “Oh dear, oh dear,” sighed Wendy. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/34/) — “Now these three children had a faithful nurse called Nana; but Mr. Darling was angry with her and chained her up in the yard, and so all the children flew away.” - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/35/) — “It’s an awfully good story,” said Nibs. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/36/) — “They flew away,” Wendy continued, “to the Neverland, where the lost children are.” - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/37/) — “I just thought they did,” Curly broke in excitedly. - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/38/) — “I don’t know how it is, but I just thought they did!” - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/39/) — “O Wendy,” cried Tootles, “was one of the lost children called Tootles?” - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/40/) — “Yes, he was.” - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/41/) — “I am in a story. - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/42/) — Hurrah, I am in a story, Nibs.” - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/43/) — “Hush. - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/44/) — Now I want you to consider the feelings of the unhappy parents with all their children flown away.” - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/45/) — “Oo!” they all moaned, though they were not really considering the feelings of the unhappy parents one jot. - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/46/) — “Think of the empty beds!” - [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/47/) — “Oo!” - [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/48/) — “It’s awfully sad,” the first twin said cheerfully. - [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/49/) — “I don’t see how it can have a happy ending,” said the second twin. - [50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/50/) — “Do you, Nibs?” - [51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/51/) — “I’m frightfully anxious.” - [52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/52/) — “If you knew how great is a mother’s love,” Wendy told them triumphantly, “you would have no fear.” - [53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/53/) — She had now come to the part that Peter hated. - [54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/54/) — “I do like a mother’s love,” said Tootles, hitting Nibs with a pillow. - [55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/55/) — “Do you like a mother’s love, Nibs?” - [56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/56/) — “I do just,” said Nibs, hitting back. - [57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/57/) — “You see,” Wendy said complacently, “our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for years and had a lovely time.” - [58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/58/) — “Did they ever go back?” - [59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/59/) — “Let us now,” said Wendy, bracing herself up for her finest effort, “take a peep into the future;” and they all gave themselves the twist that makes peeps into the future easier. - [60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/60/) — “Years have rolled by, and who is this elegant lady of uncertain age alighting at London Station?” - [61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/61/) — “O Wendy, who is she?” cried Nibs, every bit as excited as if he didn’t know. - [62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/62/) — “Can it be—yes—no—it is—the fair Wendy!” - [63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/63/) — “Oh!” - [64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/64/) — “And who are the two noble portly figures accompanying her, now grown to man’s estate? - [65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/65/) — Can they be John and Michael? - [66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/66/) — They are!” - [67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/67/) — “Oh!” - [68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/68/) — “‘See, dear brothers,’ says Wendy pointing upwards, ‘there is the window still standing open. - [69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/69/) — Ah, now we are rewarded for our sublime faith in a mother’s love.’ - [70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/70/) — So up they flew to their mummy and daddy, and pen cannot describe the happy scene, over which we draw a veil.” - [71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/71/) — That was the story, and they were as pleased with it as the fair narrator herself. - [72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/72/) — Everything just as it should be, you see. - [73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/73/) — Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked. - [74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/74/) — So great indeed was their faith in a mother’s love that they felt they could afford to be callous for a bit longer. - [75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/75/) — But there was one there who knew better, and when Wendy finished he uttered a hollow groan. - [76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/76/) — “What is it, Peter?” she cried, running to him, thinking he was ill. - [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/77/) — She felt him solicitously, lower down than his chest. - [78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/78/) — “Where is it, Peter?” - [79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/79/) — “It isn’t that kind of pain,” Peter replied darkly. - [80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/80/) — “Then what kind is it?” - [81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/81/) — “Wendy, you are wrong about mothers.” - [82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/82/) — They all gathered round him in affright, so alarming was his agitation; and with a fine candour he told them what he had hitherto concealed. - [83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/83/) — “Long ago,” he said, “I thought like you that my mother would always keep the window open for me, so I stayed away for moons and moons and moons, and then flew back; but the window was barred, for mother had forgotten all about me, and there was another little boy sleeping in my bed.” - [84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/84/) — I am not sure that this was true, but Peter thought it was true; and it scared them. - [85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/85/) — “Are you sure mothers are like that?” - [86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/86/) — “Yes.” - [87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/87/) — So this was the truth about mothers. - [88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/88/) — The toads! - [89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/89/) — Still it is best to be careful; and no one knows so quickly as a child when he should give in. - [90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/90/) — “Wendy, let us go home,” cried John and Michael together. - [91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/91/) — “Yes,” she said, clutching them. - [92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/92/) — “Not to-night?” asked the lost boys bewildered. - [93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/93/) — They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can’t. - [94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/94/) — “At once,” Wendy replied resolutely, for the horrible thought had come to her: “Perhaps mother is in half mourning by this time.” - [95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/95/) — This dread made her forgetful of what must be Peter’s feelings, and she said to him rather sharply, “Peter, will you make the necessary arrangements?” - [96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/96/) — “If you wish it,” he replied, as coolly as if she had asked him to pass the nuts. - [97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/97/) — Not so much as a sorry-to-lose-you between them! - [98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/98/) — If she did not mind the parting, he was going to show her, was Peter, that neither did he. - [99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/99/) — But of course he cared very much; and he was so full of wrath against grown-ups, who, as usual, were spoiling everything, that as soon as he got inside his tree he breathed intentionally quick short breaths at the rate of about five to a second. - [100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/100/) — He did this because there is a saying in the Neverland that, every time you breathe, a grown-up dies; and Peter was killing them off vindictively as fast as possible. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/page/2/) - ← previous: [Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/11/) - next →: [Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/13/) - ↑ back to [Peter Pan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/)