---
title: So up they flew to their mummy and daddy, and pen cannot describe th… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: So up they flew to their mummy and daddy, and pen cannot describe the happy scene, over which we draw a veil.” Who acts: descendants, pen, we. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/70/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Peter Pan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/) / [Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/) / 70

# Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 70

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
So up they flew to their mummy and daddy, and pen cannot describe the happy scene, over which we draw a veil.”

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** descendants, pen, we · **What happens:** fly, not describe, draw · **To what, where:** happy scene, veil

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (descendants, pen, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg16:12:70
# text = So up they flew to their mummy and daddy, and pen cannot describe the happy scene, over which we draw a veil.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mummy	mummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	daddy	daddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	draw	draw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | descendants *= descendant* |  |  |  |  | to descendants's mummy and daddy *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mummy=Result |
| 2 | **not** **describe** | can | pen | the happy scene |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent scene=Theme |
| 3 | **draw** | present | we | a veil |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/69/)
- next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/71/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/12/)