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title: She was called Jane, and always had an odd inquiring look, as if fro… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: She was called Jane, and always had an odd inquiring look, as if from the moment she arrived on the mainland she wanted to ask questions. Who acts: most, mainland. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 129

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She was called Jane, and always had an odd inquiring look, as if from the moment she arrived on the mainland she wanted to ask questions.

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**Who acts:** most, mainland · **What happens:** call, have, arrive, want, ask · **To what, where:** most, odd inquiring look, mainland, questions · **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 (most, mainland), 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:pg16:18:129
# text = She was called Jane, and always had an odd inquiring look, as if from the moment she arrived on the mainland she wanted to ask questions.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	Jane	Jane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	inquiring	inquiring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mainland	mainland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | most |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **have** | past |  | a odd inquiring look |  |  |  | always *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient |
| 3 | **arrive** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | most |  |  | the mainland | moment |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **want** | past | most | the mainland *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the mainland *not said here* | questions |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |

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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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