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title: She had looked forward to thrilling talks with him about old times,… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: She had looked forward to thrilling talks with him about old times, but new adventures had crowded the old ones from his mind. Who acts: Nana, new adventures, Peter. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 94

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She had looked forward to thrilling talks with him about old times, but new adventures had crowded the old ones from his mind.

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**Who acts:** Nana, new adventures, Peter · **What happens:** look, thrill, crowd, mind · **To what, where:** talks, old ones, mind

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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 (Nana, new adventures, Peter), 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:pg16:18:94
# text = She had looked forward to thrilling talks with him about old times, but new adventures had crowded the old ones from his mind.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	thrilling	thrill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	talks	talk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	crowded	crowd	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · perfect | Nana |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **thrill** | gerund | Nana *not said here* | talks |  |  | about old times | with Peter | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus talk=Experiencer |
| 3 | **crowd** | past · perfect | new adventures | the old ones |  | Peter's mind |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme one=Destination |
| 4 | **mind** |  | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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