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title: Thus children are ever ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their d… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus children are ever ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones. Who acts: children, novelty. 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 146

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Thus children are ever ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones.

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**Who acts:** children, novelty · **What happens:** be, knock, desert · **To what, where:** dearest ones

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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 (children, novelty), 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:pg16:12:146
# text = Thus children are ever ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
8	novelty	novelty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	knocks	knock	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	desert	desert	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	dearest	dear	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | children |  |  |  | ever | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **knock** | present | novelty |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **desert** | to-infinitive |  | Nibs's dearest ones |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme one=Source |

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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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