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title: The man was not wholly evil; he loved flowers (I have been told) and… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The man was not wholly evil; he loved flowers (I have been told) and sweet music (he was himself no mean performer on the harpsichord); and, let it be frankly admitted, the idyllic nature of the scene stirred him profoundly. Who acts: man, performer, idyllic nature. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 53

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The man was not wholly evil; he loved flowers (I have been told) and sweet music (he was himself no mean performer on the harpsichord); and, let it be frankly admitted, the idyllic nature of the scene stirred him profoundly.

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**Who acts:** man, performer, idyllic nature · **What happens:** not be, love, tell, be, let, admit · **To what, where:** flowers, I, man, performer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, performer, idyllic nature), 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:pg16:14:53
# text = The man was not wholly evil; he loved flowers (I have been told) and sweet music (he was himself no mean performer on the harpsichord); and, let it be frankly admitted, the idyllic nature of the scene stirred him profoundly.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	wholly	wholly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obl	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
25	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	performer	performer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	harpsichord	harpsichord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux:pass	_	_
37	frankly	frankly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	admitted	admit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	idyllic	idyllic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	stirred	stir	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
47	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	profoundly	profoundly	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | the man |  |  |  |  | evil, wholly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **love** | past | man | flowers |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** | past | man | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive | the man *not said here* | performer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **admit** *speech: other* | infinitive · passive | performer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | frankly *property* | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S» |
| 7 | **stir** | past | the idyllic nature of the scene | man |  |  |  | profoundly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |

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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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