--- title: How delicious to spoil it all by breaking the news in advance; so th… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: How delicious to spoil it all by breaking the news in advance; so that when they enter grandly Mrs. Darling may not even offer Wendy her mouth, and Mr. Darling may exclaim pettishly, “Dash it all, here are those boys again.” Who acts: children, grandly Mrs. Darling, Darling. A sentence of «Peter Pan --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/17/29/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Peter Pan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/) / [Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/17/) / 29 # Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 29 How delicious to spoil it all by breaking the news in advance; so that when they enter grandly Mrs. Darling may not even offer Wendy her mouth, and Mr. Darling may exclaim pettishly, “Dash it all, here are those boys again.” **Who acts:** children, grandly Mrs. Darling, Darling · **What happens:** spoil, break, enter, not offer, exclaim, dash · **To what, where:** surprise, news, advance, mouth, Wendy · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (children, grandly Mrs. Darling, Darling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg16:17:29 # text = How delicious to spoil it all by breaking the news in advance; so that when they enter grandly Mrs. Darling may not even offer Wendy her mouth, and Mr. Darling may exclaim pettishly, “Dash it all, here are those boys again.” 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 delicious delicious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 spoil spoil VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 all all ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 7 by by SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 breaking break VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 advance advance NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 14 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 18 mark _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 enter enter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 19 grandly grandly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 Mrs. Mrs. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Darling darling NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 even even ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 offer offer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 26 Wendy Wendy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod:desc _ _ 32 Darling Darling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 exclaim exclaim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 35 pettishly pettishly ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 “ " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 Dash dash VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 39 det _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 45 advmod _ _ 43 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 44 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 45 det _ _ 45 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 parataxis _ _ 46 again again ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spoil** | to-infinitive | | surprise | | | | all *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **break** | gerund | | the news | | advance | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer news=Patient | | 3 | **enter** | present | children *= child* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **offer** | may | grandly Mrs. Darling | Darling's mouth | Wendy | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent wendy=Goal mouth=Theme | | 5 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | may | Darling Mr. | | | | | pettishly *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **dash** *in a quote* | infinitive | | surprise | | | | | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | here *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/17/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/17/30/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/17/)