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title: It would be the moral lesson they have been in need of ever since we… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: It would be the moral lesson they have been in need of ever since we met them; but if we contrived things in this way Mrs. Darling would never forgive us. Who acts: hurry, beds, we. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 25

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It would be the moral lesson they have been in need of ever since we met them; but if we contrived things in this way Mrs. Darling would never forgive us.

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**Who acts:** hurry, beds, we · **What happens:** be, have, meet, contrive, not forgive · **To what, where:** moral lesson, beds, things, way, us

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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 (hurry, beds, we), 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:pg16:17:25
# text = It would be the moral lesson they have been in need of ever since we met them; but if we contrived things in this way Mrs. Darling would never forgive us.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	moral	moral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
14	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	contrived	contrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
23	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
28	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
32	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would | hurry | the moral lesson |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | beds *= bed* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **meet** | past | we | beds *= bed* |  |  | ever |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **contrive** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | we | things |  | this way |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Result |
| 5 | **not** **forgive** | would | hurry *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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