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title: The awful cynicism of this made an uncomfortable impression, and mos… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The awful cynicism of this made an uncomfortable impression, and most of them began to look rather doubtful. Who acts: awful cynicism. 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 172

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The awful cynicism of this made an uncomfortable impression, and most of them began to look rather doubtful.

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**Who acts:** awful cynicism · **What happens:** make, begin, look

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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 (awful cynicism), 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:pg16:12:172
# text = The awful cynicism of this made an uncomfortable impression, and most of them began to look rather doubtful.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cynicism	cynicism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	impression	impression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the awful cynicism of a made uncomfortable impression |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | the awful cynicism of a made uncomfortable impression *not said here* |  |  |  |  | doubtful *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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