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title: When Margaret grows up she will have a daughter, who is to be Peter’… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: When Margaret grows up she will have a daughter, who is to be Peter’s mother in turn; and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless. Who acts: Margaret, daughter, turn, children. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, with its de
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 260

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When Margaret grows up she will have a daughter, who is to be Peter’s mother in turn; and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.

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**Who acts:** Margaret, daughter, turn, children · **What happens:** grow up, have, be, go on · **To what, where:** daughter, mother, turn

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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 (Margaret, daughter, turn, children), 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:pg16:18:260
# text = When Margaret grows up she will have a daughter, who is to be Peter’s mother in turn; and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Margaret	Margaret	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
15	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
26	on	on	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	advcl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	heartless	heartless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** | present | Margaret |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | future | Margaret | a daughter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a daughter | Peter's mother |  | turn |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go on** | future | turn |  |  |  |  | long, thus *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | children |  |  |  |  | gay *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** |  | children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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