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title: And there never was a more humble man than the once proud George Dar… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: And there never was a more humble man than the once proud George Darling, as he sat in the kennel of an evening talking with his wife of their children and all their pretty ways. Who acts: humble man, man, evening. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, with its dep
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 53

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And there never was a more humble man than the once proud George Darling, as he sat in the kennel of an evening talking with his wife of their children and all their pretty ways.

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**Who acts:** humble man, man, evening · **What happens:** not be, sit, talk · **To what, where:** kennel

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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 (humble man, man, evening), 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:pg16:17:53
# text = And there never was a more humble man than the once proud George Darling, as he sat in the kennel of an evening talking with his wife of their children and all their pretty ways.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	advmod	_	_
12	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	kennel	kennel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	36	det:predet	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **be** | past | a humble man than the proud George |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | past | man |  |  | the kennel of a evening and children's pretty ways |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in kennel=Location |
| 3 | **talk** | gerund | a evening *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with man's wife of children's children | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with wife=Co-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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