--- title: “Oh, all right,” Peter said, as if he had asked her from politeness… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: “Oh, all right,” Peter said, as if he had asked her from politeness merely; but Mrs. Darling saw his mouth twitch, and she made this handsome offer: to let Wendy go to him for a week every year to do his spring cleaning. Who acts: Peter, Mrs. Darling, Darling, Wendy. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/18/76/) [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/) / 76 # Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 76 “Oh, all right,” Peter said, as if he had asked her from politeness merely; but Mrs. Darling saw his mouth twitch, and she made this handsome offer: to let Wendy go to him for a week every year to do his spring cleaning. **Who acts:** Peter, Mrs. Darling, Darling, Wendy · **What happens:** say, ask, see, make, let, go · **To what, where:** Tink, politeness, mouth twitch, handsome offer, Wendy, Peter · **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 (Peter, Mrs. Darling, Darling, Wendy), 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:pg16:18:76 # text = “Oh, all right,” Peter said, as if he had asked her from politeness merely; but Mrs. Darling saw his mouth twitch, and she made this handsome offer: to let Wendy go to him for a week every year to do his spring cleaning. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 all all ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 Peter Peter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 as as SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 if if SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 ccomp _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 politeness politeness NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 merely merely ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 Mrs. Mrs. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Darling Darling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 twitch twitch NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 32 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 det _ _ 33 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 offer offer NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 : : PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 38 Wendy Wendy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 39 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ _ 42 for for ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 45 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 46 det _ _ 46 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl:unmarked _ _ 47 to to PART TO _ 48 mark _ _ 48 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 advcl _ _ 49 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 50 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 51 cleaning cleaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Peter | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Peter | | Tink | politeness | | merely *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 3 | **see** | past | Mrs. Darling | Peter's mouth twitch | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer twitch=Stimulus | | 4 | **make** | past | Darling | this handsome offer | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Product | | 5 | **let** | to-infinitive | Darling *not said here* | Wendy | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | infinitive | Wendy *not said here* | | Peter | | week; year | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **do** | to-infinitive | Wendy *not said here* | Peter's spring cleaning | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleaning=Eventuality | | 8 | **twitch** | | Peter | | | | | | nom twitch «state transitive»: poss=agent | | 9 | **clean** | | Peter | | | | | | nom cleaning «act intransitive»: 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 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/18/75/) - next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/18/77/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/18/)