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title: “The last thing he ever said to me was, ‘Just always be waiting for… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “The last thing he ever said to me was, ‘Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.’” Who acts: Peter, last thing, you, Jane. 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 171

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“The last thing he ever said to me was, ‘Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.’”

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**Who acts:** Peter, last thing, you, Jane · **What happens:** say, wait, hear, crow · **To what, where:** last thing, Jane · **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 (Peter, last thing, you, Jane), 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:pg16:18:171
# text = “The last thing he ever said to me was, ‘Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.’”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:outer	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	16	advmod	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
16	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	crowing	crow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Peter | the last thing *not said here* | Jane |  | ever |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Topic to i=Recipient |
| 2 | **wait** *in a quote* | past · progressive | the last thing |  |  |  |  | for Jane; always *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** *in a quote* | future | you | Jane |  |  | then; night |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **crow** *in a quote* | gerund | Jane *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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