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title: “Now then,” cried Peter, “no fuss, no blubbering; good-bye, Wendy;”… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Now then,” cried Peter, “no fuss, no blubbering; good-bye, Wendy;” and he held out his hand cheerily, quite as if they must really go now, for he had something important to do. Who acts: Peter, face, others, something. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, with its d
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 174

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“Now then,” cried Peter, “no fuss, no blubbering; good-bye, Wendy;” and he held out his hand cheerily, quite as if they must really go now, for he had something important to do.

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**Who acts:** Peter, face, others, something · **What happens:** cry, blubber, hold out, go, have, do · **To what, where:** good, hand, something · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, face, others, something), 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:pg16:12:174
# text = “Now then,” cried Peter, “no fuss, no blubbering; good-bye, Wendy;” and he held out his hand cheerily, quite as if they must really go now, for he had something important to do.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	fuss	fuss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	blubbering	blubber	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	bye	bye	INTJ	UH	_	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	cheerily	cheerily	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	really	really	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
38	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
43	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	42	obj	_	_
44	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Peter | good |  |  | then | Wendy *obl* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **blubber** *in a quote* | gerund | Peter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hold out** | past | face | face's hand |  |  |  | cheerily *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 4 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | must | others *= other* |  |  |  | now |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past | face | something |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 6 | **do** | to-infinitive | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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