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title: This would spoil so completely the surprise to which Wendy and John… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: This would spoil so completely the surprise to which Wendy and John and Michael are looking forward. Who acts: This, Wendy. 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 27

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This would spoil so completely the surprise to which Wendy and John and Michael are looking forward.

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**Who acts:** This, Wendy · **What happens:** spoil, look · **To what, where:** surprise

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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 (This, Wendy), 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:pg16:17:27
# text = This would spoil so completely the surprise to which Wendy and John and Michael are looking forward.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	spoil	spoil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
10	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
17	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spoil** | would | This | the surprise |  |  |  | completely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | present · progressive | Wendy and John and Michael |  |  |  |  | to the surprise; forward *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to which=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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