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title: “Long ago,” he said, “I thought like you that my mother would always… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Long ago,” he said, “I thought like you that my mother would always keep the window open for me, so I stayed away for moons and moons and moons, and then flew back; but the window was barred, for mother had forgotten all about me, and there was another little boy sleeping in my bed.” Who acts: wind
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 83

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“Long ago,” he said, “I thought like you that my mother would always keep the window open for me, so I stayed away for moons and moons and moons, and then flew back; but the window was barred, for mother had forgotten all about me, and there was another little boy sleeping in my bed.”

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**Who acts:** window, mother, little boy · **What happens:** say, think, keep, stay away, fly back, bar · **To what, where:** window, bed · **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 (window, mother, little boy), 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:pg16:12:83
# text = “Long ago,” he said, “I thought like you that my mother would always keep the window open for me, so I stayed away for moons and moons and moons, and then flew back; but the window was barred, for mother had forgotten all about me, and there was another little boy sleeping in my bed.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	19	advmod	_	_
19	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
29	away	away	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	moons	moon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	moons	moon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	moons	moon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	_
39	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
40	back	back	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	barred	bar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
49	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
50	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	46	parataxis	_	_
52	all	all	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
53	about	about	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
57	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	58	expl	_	_
58	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
59	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	61	det	_	_
60	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
62	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	61	acl	_	_
63	in	in	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	65	nmod:poss	_	_
65	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | window |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | window |  |  |  |  | like you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | would | my mother | the window |  |  |  | always, open *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Theme |
| 4 | **stay away** *in a quote* | past | window |  |  |  |  | for moons and moons and moons; away *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fly back** *in a quote* | past | window *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **bar** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | the window |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **forget** *in a quote* | past · perfect | mother |  |  |  |  | about window | tree rules |
| 8 | **be** *in a quote* | past | another little boy |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **sleep** *in a quote* | gerund | another little boy *not said here* |  |  | my bed |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |

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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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