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title: Wendy would have preferred a more permanent arrangement; and it seem… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Wendy would have preferred a more permanent arrangement; and it seemed to her that spring would be long in coming; but this promise sent Peter away quite gay again. Who acts: it, spring, promise. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, with its dependency tree an
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 77

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Wendy would have preferred a more permanent arrangement; and it seemed to her that spring would be long in coming; but this promise sent Peter away quite gay again.

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**Who acts:** it, spring, promise · **What happens:** prefer, seem, be, come, send away · **To what, where:** Wendy, Darling, Peter

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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 (it, spring, promise), 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:pg16:18:77
# text = Wendy would have preferred a more permanent arrangement; and it seemed to her that spring would be long in coming; but this promise sent Peter away quite gay again.
1	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	preferred	prefer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
20	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
31	again	again	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prefer** | would · perfect · passive |  | Wendy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **seem** | past | it |  | Darling |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | would | spring |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | gerund | spring *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **send away** | past | this promise | Peter |  |  | again | away, gay *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peter=Theme |

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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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