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title: Poor Slightly, most wretched of all the children now, for he was in… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Poor Slightly, most wretched of all the children now, for he was in a panic about Peter, bitterly regretted what he had done. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 17

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Poor Slightly, most wretched of all the children now, for he was in a panic about Peter, bitterly regretted what he had done.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** be, regret, do

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg16:14:17
# text = Poor Slightly, most wretched of all the children now, for he was in a panic about Peter, bitterly regretted what he had done.
1	Poor	poor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	panic	panic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	regretted	regret	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	obj	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | man |  |  |  |  | for a panic; about Peter | tree rules |
| 2 | **regret** | participle | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bitterly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | past · perfect | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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