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title: Mrs. Darling was married in white, and at first she kept the books p… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Mrs. Darling was married in white, and at first she kept the books perfectly, almost gleefully, as if it were a game, not so much as a Brussels sprout was missing; but by and by whole cauliflowers dropped out, and instead of them there were pictures of babies without faces. Who acts: Mrs., course, B
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# Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 18

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Mrs. Darling was married in white, and at first she kept the books perfectly, almost gleefully, as if it were a game, not so much as a Brussels sprout was missing; but by and by whole cauliflowers dropped out, and instead of them there were pictures of babies without faces.

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**Who acts:** Mrs., course, Brussels sprout, whole cauliflowers, pictures · **What happens:** marry, keep, be, drop out · **To what, where:** Mrs., white, books, game

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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., course, Brussels sprout, whole cauliflowers), 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:pg16:2:18
# text = Mrs. Darling was married in white, and at first she kept the books perfectly, almost gleefully, as if it were a game, not so much as a Brussels sprout was missing; but by and by whole cauliflowers dropped out, and instead of them there were pictures of babies without faces.
1	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	obl	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	gleefully	gleefully	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	appos	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Brussels	Brussels	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	sprout	sprout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
38	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	cauliflowers	cauliflower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
43	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
44	out	out	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
47	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	49	case	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	fixed	_	_
49	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obl	_	_
50	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	51	expl	_	_
51	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
52	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nmod	_	_
55	without	without	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past · passive |  | Mrs. |  | white |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **keep** | past | Mrs. | the books |  |  |  | gleefully, perfectly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent book=Theme at first=Location |
| 3 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | course | a game |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | a Brussels sprout |  |  |  |  | missing *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **drop out** | past | whole cauliflowers |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **be** | past | pictures of babies without faces |  |  | there |  | instead cauliflowers *= cauliflower* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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