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title: “George, George!” she cried when she could speak; and Mr. Darling wo… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “George, George!” she cried when she could speak; and Mr. Darling woke to share her bliss, and Nana came rushing in. Who acts: George, Darling, Nana. 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 164

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“George, George!” she cried when she could speak; and Mr. Darling woke to share her bliss, and Nana came rushing in.

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**Who acts:** George, Darling, Nana · **What happens:** cry, speak, wake, share, come, rush in · **To what, where:** bliss · **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 (George, Darling, Nana), 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:pg16:17:164
# text = “George, George!” she cried when she could speak; and Mr. Darling woke to share her bliss, and Nana came rushing in.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:desc	_	_
16	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	bliss	bliss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	Nana	Nana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
26	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	xcomp	_	_
27	in	in	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | George |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | could | George |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wake** | past | Darling  Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **share** | to-infinitive | Darling  Mr. *not said here* | Darling's bliss |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | past | Nana |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **rush in** | gerund | Nana *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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