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title: He did not know the tune, which was “Home, Sweet Home,” but he knew… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: He did not know the tune, which was “Home, Sweet Home,” but he knew it was saying, “Come back, Wendy, Wendy, Wendy”; and he cried exultantly, “You will never see Wendy again, lady, for the window is barred!” Who acts: Wendy, tune, home, You. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. TH
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 109

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He did not know the tune, which was “Home, Sweet Home,” but he knew it was saying, “Come back, Wendy, Wendy, Wendy”; and he cried exultantly, “You will never see Wendy again, lady, for the window is barred!”

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**Who acts:** Wendy, tune, home, You · **What happens:** not know, be, know, say, come back, cry · **To what, where:** tune, Home, Wendy, window · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wendy, tune, home, You), 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:pg16:17:109
# text = He did not know the tune, which was “Home, Sweet Home,” but he knew it was saying, “Come back, Wendy, Wendy, Wendy”; and he cried exultantly, “You will never see Wendy again, lady, for the window is barred!”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Sweet	Sweet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
14	Home	Home	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
38	exultantly	exultantly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
42	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
44	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
45	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
46	again	again	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
50	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj:pass	_	_
53	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux:pass	_	_
54	barred	bar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | Wendy | the tune and Home |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tune=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the tune and Home | Home |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | past | Wendy |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · progressive | home |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **come back** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Wendy and Wendy |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Wendy |  |  |  |  | exultantly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | future | You | Wendy |  |  | again | lady *obl* | tree rules |
| 8 | **bar** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the window |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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