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title: Of course Mrs. Darling said at once that she would have them; but Mr… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course Mrs. Darling said at once that she would have them; but Mr. Darling was curiously depressed, and they saw that he considered six a rather large number. Who acts: Darling, boys, Mr.. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, with its dependency tree and th
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 7

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Of course Mrs. Darling said at once that she would have them; but Mr. Darling was curiously depressed, and they saw that he considered six a rather large number.

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**Who acts:** Darling, boys, Mr. · **What happens:** say, have, be, see, consider · **To what, where:** boys, six · **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 (Darling, boys, Mr.), 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:pg16:18:7
# text = Of course Mrs. Darling said at once that she would have them; but Mr. Darling was curiously depressed, and they saw that he considered six a rather large number.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	obl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:desc	_	_
16	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	curiously	curiously	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	depressed	depressed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	considered	consider	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
27	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	obj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | of Mrs. Darling | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | would | Darling | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | Darling  Mr. |  |  |  |  | curiously, depressed *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | past | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **consider** | past | Mr. | six |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent six=Attribute |

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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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