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title: And so when Mrs. Darling went back to the night-nursery to see if he… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: And so when Mrs. Darling went back to the night-nursery to see if her husband was asleep, all the beds were occupied. Who acts: Mrs., husband, beds. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 149

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And so when Mrs. Darling went back to the night-nursery to see if her husband was asleep, all the beds were occupied.

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**Who acts:** Mrs., husband, beds · **What happens:** go back, see, be

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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 (Mrs., husband, beds), 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:pg16:17:149
# text = And so when Mrs. Darling went back to the night-nursery to see if her husband was asleep, all the beds were occupied.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	occupied	occupied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | past | Mrs. |  |  |  |  | to the night nursery *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to nursery=Result |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | Mrs. *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Mrs.'s husband |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | all beds |  |  |  |  | occupied *property* | tree rules |

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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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