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title: Nibs exclaimed, aghast at such insubordination, whereupon Peter went… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Nibs exclaimed, aghast at such insubordination, whereupon Peter went sternly toward the young lady’s chamber. Who acts: Peter. 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 131

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Nibs exclaimed, aghast at such insubordination, whereupon Peter went sternly toward the young lady’s chamber.

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**Who acts:** Peter · **What happens:** exclaim, go · **To what, where:** Nibs, chamber

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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 (Peter), 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:pg16:12:131
# text = Nibs exclaimed, aghast at such insubordination, whereupon Peter went sternly toward the young lady’s chamber.
1	Nibs	nib	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	aghast	aghast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	insubordination	insubordination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	sternly	sternly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | participle |  | Nibs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | past | Peter |  |  | the young lady's chamber |  | sternly, whereupon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme toward chamber=Initial\_Location |

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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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