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title: “‘See, dear brothers,’ says Wendy pointing upwards, ‘there is the wi… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “‘See, dear brothers,’ says Wendy pointing upwards, ‘there is the window still standing open. Who acts: Wendy, window. 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 68

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“‘See, dear brothers,’ says Wendy pointing upwards, ‘there is the window still standing open.

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**Who acts:** Wendy, window · **What happens:** see, say, point, be, stand · **To what, where:** dear brothers · **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 (Wendy, window), 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:pg16:12:68
# text = “‘See, dear brothers,’ says Wendy pointing upwards, ‘there is the window still standing open.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	See	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	ccomp	_	_
12	upwards	upwards	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
21	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | dear brothers |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **point** *in a quote* | gerund | Wendy |  |  |  |  | upwards *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* | present | the window |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **stand** *in a quote* | gerund | the window *not said here* |  |  |  | still | open *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «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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