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title: When the children flew away, Mr. Darling felt in his bones that all… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: When the children flew away, Mr. Darling felt in his bones that all the blame was his for having chained Nana up, and that from first to last she had been wiser than he. Who acts: children, Darling, bones, that. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, with its depend
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 47

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When the children flew away, Mr. Darling felt in his bones that all the blame was his for having chained Nana up, and that from first to last she had been wiser than he.

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**Who acts:** children, Darling, bones, that · **What happens:** fly away, feel, be, have up, chain, last · **To what, where:** Mr., chained Nana

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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 (children, Darling, bones, that), 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:pg16:17:47
# text = When the children flew away, Mr. Darling felt in his bones that all the blame was his for having chained Nana up, and that from first to last she had been wiser than he.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	blame	blame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	acl:relcl	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
21	chained	chain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	Nana	Nana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	nsubj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	30	obl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	cop	_	_
34	wiser	wise	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	parataxis	_	_
35	than	than	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly away** | past | the children |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | past | Darling  Mr. |  |  |  |  | in Mr.'s bones | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in bone=Attribute |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Mr.'s bones | Mr. |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have up** | gerund | Darling  Mr. *not said here* | chained Nana |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nana=Patient |
| 5 | **chain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **last** | infinitive | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | past · perfect | Darling |  |  |  |  | than Nana; wise *property* | tree rules |

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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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