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title: Mrs. Darling examined them very carefully; they were skeleton leaves… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Mrs. Darling examined them very carefully; they were skeleton leaves, but she was sure they did not come from any tree that grew in England. Who acts: Mrs., parts, tree. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 114

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Mrs. Darling examined them very carefully; they were skeleton leaves, but she was sure they did not come from any tree that grew in England.

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**Who acts:** Mrs., parts, tree · **What happens:** examine, be, not come, grow · **To what, where:** parts, skeleton leaves, tree, England

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mrs., parts, tree), 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:pg16:2:114
# text = Mrs. Darling examined them very carefully; they were skeleton leaves, but she was sure they did not come from any tree that grew in England.
1	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	examined	examine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **examine** | past | Mrs. | parts *= part* |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | parts *= part* | skeleton leaves |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Mrs. |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **come** | past · do-support | parts *= part* |  |  | any tree |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **grow** | past | any tree |  |  | England |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in england=Location |

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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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