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title: Why on earth should their beds be properly aired, seeing that they l… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Why on earth should their beds be properly aired, seeing that they left them in such a thankless hurry? Who acts: 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 23

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Why on earth should their beds be properly aired, seeing that they left them in such a thankless hurry?

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**Who acts:** beds · **What happens:** air, see, leave · **To what, where:** beds, earth, servants, thankless hurry · **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 (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:pg16:17:23
# text = Why on earth should their beds be properly aired, seeing that they left them in such a thankless hurry?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	aired	air	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	20	det:predet	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	thankless	thankless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **air** | should · passive |  | servants's beds |  | earth |  | properly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **leave** | past | beds *= bed* | servants *= servant* |  | such thankless hurry |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in hurry=Location |

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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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