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title: Michael came close to her and whispered, with a shiver, “Perhaps the… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Michael came close to her and whispered, with a shiver, “Perhaps there is no such person, Wendy!” and then Wendy would have cried if Michael had not been crying. Who acts: Michael. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 109

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Michael came close to her and whispered, with a shiver, “Perhaps there is no such person, Wendy!” and then Wendy would have cried if Michael had not been crying.

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**Who acts:** Michael · **What happens:** come, whisper, be, cry, not cry · **To what, where:** lot, shiver, such person, Wendy · **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 (Michael), 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:pg16:18:109
# text = Michael came close to her and whispered, with a shiver, “Perhaps there is no such person, Wendy!” and then Wendy would have cried if Michael had not been crying.
1	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shiver	shiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
18	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
26	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux	_	_
29	cried	cry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
34	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	aux	_	_
35	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Michael |  | lot |  |  | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **whisper** *speech: express* | past | Michael *not said here* | a shiver |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shiver=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | no such person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | would · perfect · passive |  | Wendy |  |  | then |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **cry** *speech: express* *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · progressive | Michael |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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