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title: When Wendy returned diffidently she found Peter sitting on the bed-p… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: When Wendy returned diffidently she found Peter sitting on the bed-post crowing gloriously, while Jane in her nighty was flying round the room in solemn ecstasy. Who acts: Wendy, Jane, Peter, bed post. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, with its dependency t
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 246

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When Wendy returned diffidently she found Peter sitting on the bed-post crowing gloriously, while Jane in her nighty was flying round the room in solemn ecstasy.

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**Who acts:** Wendy, Jane, Peter, bed post · **What happens:** return, find, sit, crow, fly · **To what, where:** Peter, bed post, solemn ecstasy

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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 (Wendy, Jane, Peter, bed post), 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:pg16:18:246
# text = When Wendy returned diffidently she found Peter sitting on the bed-post crowing gloriously, while Jane in her nighty was flying round the room in solemn ecstasy.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
4	diffidently	diffidently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	crowing	crow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	gloriously	gloriously	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	Jane	Jane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	nighty	nighty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
24	round	round	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	ecstasy	ecstasy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | Wendy |  |  |  |  | diffidently *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | Jane | Peter |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent peter=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | gerund | Peter *not said here* |  |  | the bed post |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on post=Location |
| 4 | **crow** | gerund | the bed post *not said here* |  |  |  |  | gloriously *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fly** | past · progressive | Jane in Jane's nighty |  |  | solemn ecstasy |  | round the room | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in ecstasy=Location |

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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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