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title: Then having given the necessary instructions to the redskins he retu… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Then having given the necessary instructions to the redskins he returned to the home, where an unworthy scene had been enacted in his absence. Who acts: dread. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 101

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Then having given the necessary instructions to the redskins he returned to the home, where an unworthy scene had been enacted in his absence.

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**Who acts:** dread · **What happens:** give, return, enact, absent · **To what, where:** necessary instructions, redskins, unworthy scene, absence

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dread), 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:pg16:12:101
# text = Then having given the necessary instructions to the redskins he returned to the home, where an unworthy scene had been enacted in his absence.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	aux	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	instructions	instruction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	redskins	redskin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	unworthy	unworthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	enacted	enact	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | gerund · perfect |  | the necessary instructions | the redskins |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme to redskin=Recipient |
| 2 | **return** | past | dread |  |  |  |  | to the home *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result |
| 3 | **enact** | past · perfect · passive |  | a unworthy scene |  | dread's absence |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **absent** |  | dread |  |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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