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title: On that eventful Thursday week, Mrs. Darling was in the night-nurser… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: On that eventful Thursday week, Mrs. Darling was in the night-nursery awaiting George’s return home; a very sad-eyed woman. Who acts: Mrs., night nursery, George. 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 62

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On that eventful Thursday week, Mrs. Darling was in the night-nursery awaiting George’s return home; a very sad-eyed woman.

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**Who acts:** Mrs., night nursery, George · **What happens:** be, await, return · **To what, where:** night nursery, return

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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 (Mrs., night nursery, George), 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:pg16:17:62
# text = On that eventful Thursday week, Mrs. Darling was in the night-nursery awaiting George’s return home; a very sad-eyed woman.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	eventful	eventful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
8	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	awaiting	await	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	home	home	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Mrs. |  |  | the night nursery and a eyed woman | week |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **await** | gerund | the night nursery and a eyed woman *not said here* | George's return |  |  |  | home *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **return** |  | George |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: 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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