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title: By this time they were dejected, not merely because they were about… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: By this time they were dejected, not merely because they were about to lose her, but also because they felt that she was going off to something nice to which they had not been invited. Who acts: boys, Tink. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, with its dependency tre
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 136

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By this time they were dejected, not merely because they were about to lose her, but also because they felt that she was going off to something nice to which they had not been invited.

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**Who acts:** boys, Tink · **What happens:** deject, not be, lose, feel, go off, not invite · **To what, where:** boys, Tink

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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 (boys, Tink), 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:pg16:12:136
# text = By this time they were dejected, not merely because they were about to lose her, but also because they felt that she was going off to something nice to which they had not been invited.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	dejected	deject	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
9	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
27	off	off	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	26	obl	_	_
30	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obj	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
36	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deject** | past · passive |  | boys *= boy* |  |  | time |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  | about, merely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lose** | to-infinitive | boys *= boy* *not said here* | Tink |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
| 4 | **feel** | past | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **go off** | past · progressive | Tink |  |  |  |  | to something | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **invite** | past · perfect · passive |  | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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