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title: If we had returned sooner to look with sorrowful sympathy at her, sh… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: If we had returned sooner to look with sorrowful sympathy at her, she would probably have cried, “Don’t be silly; what do I matter? Who acts: we, Mrs.. 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 18

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If we had returned sooner to look with sorrowful sympathy at her, she would probably have cried, “Don’t be silly; what do I matter?

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**Who acts:** we, Mrs. · **What happens:** return, look, cry, not be, matter · **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 (we, Mrs.), 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:pg16:17:18
# text = If we had returned sooner to look with sorrowful sympathy at her, she would probably have cried, “Don’t be silly; what do I matter?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
5	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
18	cried	cry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	29	obj	_	_
27	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	matter	matter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | we |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with sorrowful sympathy; at Mrs. | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | would · perfect | Mrs. |  |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | Mrs. *not said here* |  |  |  |  | silly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **matter** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Mrs. |  |  |  |  |  | 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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