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title: “Oh, mummy,” cried the first twin, “you mean that there is a lady al… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, mummy,” cried the first twin, “you mean that there is a lady also, don’t you? Who acts: mummy, you, lady. 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 7

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“Oh, mummy,” cried the first twin, “you mean that there is a lady also, don’t you?

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**Who acts:** mummy, you, lady · **What happens:** cry, mean, be, not do · **To what, where:** first twin, you · **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 (mummy, you, lady), 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:pg16:12:7
# text = “Oh, mummy,” cried the first twin, “you mean that there is a lady also, don’t you?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	mummy	mummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	twin	twin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | mummy | the first twin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a lady |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |

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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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