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title: Something of the strength of character of the man will be seen if we… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Something of the strength of character of the man will be seen if we remember how sensitive he was to the opinion of neighbours: this man whose every movement now attracted surprised attention. Who acts: we, Nana, man. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, with its
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 57

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Something of the strength of character of the man will be seen if we remember how sensitive he was to the opinion of neighbours: this man whose every movement now attracted surprised attention.

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**Who acts:** we, Nana, man · **What happens:** see, remember, be, attract, move · **To what, where:** Something, surprised attention · **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 (we, Nana, man), 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:pg16:17:57
# text = Something of the strength of character of the man will be seen if we remember how sensitive he was to the opinion of neighbours: this man whose every movement now attracted surprised attention.
1	Something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
17	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
28	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
32	attracted	attract	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
33	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | future · passive |  | Something |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **remember** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | we |  |  |  |  | sensitive *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | Nana |  |  |  |  | to the opinion; of neighbours | tree rules |
| 4 | **attract** | past | this man  this man  this man's movement's movement | surprised attention |  |  | now |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient |
| 5 | **move** |  | this man  this man  every movement's movement |  |  |  |  |  | nom movement «act 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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