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title: Mrs. Darling exclaimed, pained to see her dear one showing himself i… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Mrs. Darling exclaimed, pained to see her dear one showing himself in such an unfavourable light. Who acts: Mrs., dear one. 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 17

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Mrs. Darling exclaimed, pained to see her dear one showing himself in such an unfavourable light.

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**Who acts:** Mrs., dear one · **What happens:** exclaim, pain, see, show · **To what, where:** dear one, George

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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 (Mrs., dear one), 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:pg16:18:17
# text = Mrs. Darling exclaimed, pained to see her dear one showing himself in such an unfavourable light.
1	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	pained	pain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	17	det:predet	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	unfavourable	unfavourable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | Mrs. |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **pain** | participle | Mrs. *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | Mrs. *not said here* | Mrs.'s dear one |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 4 | **show** | gerund | Mrs.'s dear one *not said here* | George |  |  |  | in such unfavourable light | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in light=Topic |

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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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