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title: Wendy was pained too to find that the past year was but as yesterday… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Wendy was pained too to find that the past year was but as yesterday to Peter; it had seemed such a long year of waiting to her. Who acts: past year, it, long year. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 103

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Wendy was pained too to find that the past year was but as yesterday to Peter; it had seemed such a long year of waiting to her.

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**Who acts:** past year, it, long year · **What happens:** pain, find, be, seem, wait · **To what, where:** Wendy, Peter, long year, lot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (past year, it, long year), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg16:2340`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg16:18:103
# text = Wendy was pained too to find that the past year was but as yesterday to Peter; it had seemed such a long year of waiting to her.
1	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	pained	pain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	but	but	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	seemed	seem	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
21	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	24	det:predet	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	_
25	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pain** | past · passive |  | Wendy |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the past year |  | Peter |  | as yesterday | but *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **seem** | past · perfect | it | such long year | lot |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **wait** | gerund | such long year *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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