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title: Even now we venture into that familiar nursery only because its lawf… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Even now we venture into that familiar nursery only because its lawful occupants are on their way home; we are merely hurrying on in advance of them to see that their beds are properly aired and that Mr. and Mrs. Darling do not go out for the evening. Who acts: we, lawful occupants, Mrs., occupants.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 21

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Even now we venture into that familiar nursery only because its lawful occupants are on their way home; we are merely hurrying on in advance of them to see that their beds are properly aired and that Mr. and Mrs. Darling do not go out for the evening.

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**Who acts:** we, lawful occupants, Mrs., occupants · **What happens:** venture, be, hurry on, see, air, not go out · **To what, where:** familiar nursery, way, advance, beds · **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, lawful occupants, Mrs., occupants), 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:pg16:17:21
# text = Even now we venture into that familiar nursery only because its lawful occupants are on their way home; we are merely hurrying on in advance of them to see that their beds are properly aired and that Mr. and Mrs. Darling do not go out for the evening.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	venture	venture	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	lawful	lawful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	occupants	occupant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
18	home	home	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	hurrying	hurry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	advance	advance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
35	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	aired	air	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	ccomp	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
39	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod:desc	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
42	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	flat	_	_
43	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
45	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
46	out	out	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	for	for	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **venture** | present | we |  |  | that familiar nursery | now |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | nursery's lawful occupants |  |  | occupants's way |  | home *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hurry on** | present · progressive | we |  |  | advance of occupants |  | merely *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in advance=Trajectory |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **air** | present · passive |  | occupants's beds |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **go out** | present · do-support | Mrs.  Mr. |  |  |  | evening | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **advance** |  | occupants *= occupant* |  |  |  |  |  | nom advance «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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