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title: To all Mrs. Darling’s dear invitations to him to come out he replied… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: To all Mrs. Darling’s dear invitations to him to come out he replied sadly but firmly: Who acts: Nana, dear invitations, Mrs. Darling. 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 49

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To all Mrs. Darling’s dear invitations to him to come out he replied sadly but firmly:

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**Who acts:** Nana, dear invitations, Mrs. Darling · **What happens:** come out, reply, invite · **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 (Nana, dear invitations, Mrs. Darling), 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:pg16:17:49
# text = To all Mrs. Darling’s dear invitations to him to come out he replied sadly but firmly:
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
3	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	invitations	invitation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
8	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
12	out	out	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | to-infinitive | Nana |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | all Mrs. Darling's dear invitations |  |  |  |  | sadly *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **invite** |  | all Mrs. Darling |  |  |  |  |  | nom invitation «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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