--- title: Before they had attended school a week they saw what goats they had… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: Before they had attended school a week they saw what goats they had been not to remain on the island; but it was too late now, and soon they settled down to being as ordinary as you or me or Jenkins minor. Who acts: boys, school. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GR --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/18/87/) [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/) / 87 # Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 87 Before they had attended school a week they saw what goats they had been not to remain on the island; but it was too late now, and soon they settled down to being as ordinary as you or me or Jenkins minor. **Who acts:** boys, school · **What happens:** attend, see, have, not remain, be, settle down · **To what, where:** school, goats, island 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 (boys, school), 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:pg16:18:87 # text = Before they had attended school a week they saw what goats they had been not to remain on the island; but it was too late now, and soon they settled down to being as ordinary as you or me or Jenkins minor. 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 attended attend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 5 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 obj _ _ 11 goats goat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 remain remain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 too too ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 27 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 32 advmod _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 settled settle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 33 down down ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 cop _ _ 36 as as ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 obl _ _ 38 as as ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ _ 40 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 conj _ _ 42 or or CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 Jenkins Jenkins PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 minor minor NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **attend** | past · perfect | boys *= boy* | school | | | | | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme school=Goal | | 2 | **see** | past | boys *= boy* | | | | week | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 3 | **have** | participle | boys *= boy* | goats *not said here* | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Patient | | 4 | **not** **remain** | to-infinitive | boys *= boy* *not said here* | | | the island | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location | | 5 | **is** | past | school | | | | now | late *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **settle down** | past | boys *= boy* | | | | | down, soon *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | as you; ordinary *property* | tree rules | 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 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/18/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/18/88/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/18/)