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title: “How lovely,” cried Wendy so longingly that Mrs. Darling tightened h… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “How lovely,” cried Wendy so longingly that Mrs. Darling tightened her grip. Who acts: Mrs.. 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 58

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“How lovely,” cried Wendy so longingly that Mrs. Darling tightened her grip.

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**Who acts:** Mrs. · **What happens:** cry, tighten, grip · **To what, where:** grip

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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.), 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:pg16:18:58
# text = “How lovely,” cried Wendy so longingly that Mrs. Darling tightened her grip.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	longingly	longingly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	tightened	tighten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	grip	grip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  |  |  |  |  | longingly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tighten** | past | Mrs. | Mrs.'s grip |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent grip=Patient |
| 3 | **grip** |  | Mrs. |  |  |  |  |  | nom grip «act transitive»: poss=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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