--- title: He was as glad to have them as she was, he said, but he thought they… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: He was as glad to have them as she was, he said, but he thought they should have asked his consent as well as hers, instead of treating him as a cypher in his own house. Who acts: truth, Mrs., tears. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, with its dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/18/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Peter Pan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/) / [Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/18/) / 19 # Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 19 He was as glad to have them as she was, he said, but he thought they should have asked his consent as well as hers, instead of treating him as a cypher in his own house. **Who acts:** truth, Mrs., tears · **What happens:** be, have, think, ask, treat, consent · **To what, where:** tears, consent, truth · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (truth, Mrs., tears), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg16:18:19 # text = He was as glad to have them as she was, he said, but he thought they should have asked his consent as well as hers, instead of treating him as a cypher in his own house. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 as as ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 aux _ _ 21 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 ccomp _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 consent consent NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 as as ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 26 as as ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 hers her PRON PRP Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 31 mark _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 29 fixed _ _ 31 treating treat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 as as ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 cypher cypher NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | truth | | | | | glad *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | truth *not said here* | tears *= tear* | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 3 | **is** | past | Mrs. | | | | | say *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | truth | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | should · perfect | tears *= tear* | truth's consent | | | | as Mrs. | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent consent=Recipient | | 6 | **treat** | gerund | tears *= tear* *not said here* | truth | | | | as a cypher in truth's own house | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Theme as cypher=Attribute | | 7 | **consent** | | truth | | | | | | nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/18/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/18/20/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/18/)