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title: They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can’t. Who acts: boys, one, heart, mothers. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 93

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They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can’t.

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**Who acts:** boys, one, heart, mothers · **What happens:** know, call, get on, be, think · **To what, where:** hearts, mothers · **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 (boys, one, heart, mothers), 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:pg16:12:93
# text = They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can’t.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
16	without	without	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **call** | past | boys *= boy* | boys's hearts |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent heart=Recipient |
| 3 | **get on** | can | one |  |  |  |  | without a mother; well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | present | heart | the mothers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | present | the mothers |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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