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title: But of course he cared very much; and he was so full of wrath agains… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: But of course he cared very much; and he was so full of wrath against grown-ups, who, as usual, were spoiling everything, that as soon as he got inside his tree he breathed intentionally quick short breaths at the rate of about five to a second. Who acts: dread. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Ba
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 99

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But of course he cared very much; and he was so full of wrath against grown-ups, who, as usual, were spoiling everything, that as soon as he got inside his tree he breathed intentionally quick short breaths at the rate of about five to a second.

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**Who acts:** dread · **What happens:** care, be, grow, spoil, get, breathe · **To what, where:** everything, tree, quick short breaths, rate

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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 (dread), 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:pg16:12:99
# text = But of course he cared very much; and he was so full of wrath against grown-ups, who, as usual, were spoiling everything, that as soon as he got inside his tree he breathed intentionally quick short breaths at the rate of about five to a second.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	5	advmod	_	_
3	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	fixed	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	cared	care	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	against	against	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	spoiling	spoil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
28	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	obl	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
36	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	breathed	breathe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
41	intentionally	intentionally	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	breaths	breath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
45	at	at	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	about	about	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nmod	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **care** | past | dread |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | dread |  |  |  |  | of wrath; against grown ups; full *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **spoil** | past · progressive | dread *not said here* | everything |  |  |  | that *obl* | tree rules |
| 5 | **get** | past | dread |  |  | dread's tree |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **breathe** | past | dread | quick short breaths |  | the rate of five | second |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |

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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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