--- title: Now it was his turn to beg her pardon; and she went into the day-nur… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: Now it was his turn to beg her pardon; and she went into the day-nursery and played, and soon he was asleep; and while he slept, Wendy and John and Michael flew into the room. Who acts: window, George, man, Wendy. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/17/96/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Peter Pan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/) / [Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/17/) / 96 # Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 96 Now it was his turn to beg her pardon; and she went into the day-nursery and played, and soon he was asleep; and while he slept, Wendy and John and Michael flew into the room. **Who acts:** window, George, man, Wendy · **What happens:** be, beg, go, play, sleep, fly · **To what, where:** turn, pardon, day nursery, room 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 (window, George, man, Wendy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg16:17:96 # text = Now it was his turn to beg her pardon; and she went into the day-nursery and played, and soon he was asleep; and while he slept, Wendy and John and Michael flew into the room. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 beg beg VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 pardon pardon NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 nursery nursery NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 29 while while SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 slept sleep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 33 Wendy Wendy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 Michael Michael PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 38 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 39 into into ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | window | man's turn | | | now | | tree rules | | 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | to-infinitive | | George's pardon | | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient | | 3 | **go** | past | George | | | the day nursery | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into nursery=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **play** | past | George *not said here* | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | past | man | | | | | asleep, soon *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **sleep** | past | man | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **fly** | past | Wendy and John and Michael | | | | | into the room *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into room=Result | | 8 | **pardon** | | George | | | | | | nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/17/95/) - next →: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/17/97/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/17/)