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title: But Wendy had not been dreaming, as the very next night showed, the… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: But Wendy had not been dreaming, as the very next night showed, the night on which the extraordinary adventures of these children may be said to have begun. Who acts: Wendy, next night. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 119

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But Wendy had not been dreaming, as the very next night showed, the night on which the extraordinary adventures of these children may be said to have begun.

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**Who acts:** Wendy, next night · **What happens:** not dream, show, say, begin, adventure · **To what, where:** extraordinary adventures, children · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Wendy, next night), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg16:153`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg16:2:119
# text = But Wendy had not been dreaming, as the very next night showed, the night on which the extraordinary adventures of these children may be said to have begun.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux	_	_
6	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux	_	_
30	begun	begin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	xcomp	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **dream** | past · perfect · progressive | Wendy |  |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **show** | past | the next night |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | may · passive |  | the extraordinary adventures of this children |  |  | on the night |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **begin** | to-infinitive · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **adventure** |  |  | this children |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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