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title: For a week or two after Wendy came it was doubtful whether they woul… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: For a week or two after Wendy came it was doubtful whether they would be able to keep her, as she was another mouth to feed. Who acts: sprout, books, Wendy. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 22

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For a week or two after Wendy came it was doubtful whether they would be able to keep her, as she was another mouth to feed.

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**Who acts:** sprout, books, Wendy · **What happens:** come, be, keep, feed · **To what, where:** Wendy

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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 (sprout, books, Wendy), 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:pg16:2:22
# text = For a week or two after Wendy came it was doubtful whether they would be able to keep her, as she was another mouth to feed.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
12	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  | week |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | sprout |  |  |  |  | doubtful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | would | books *= book* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | books *= book* *not said here* | Wendy |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | Wendy |  |  |  |  | as another mouth | tree rules |
| 6 | **feed** | to-infinitive | books *= book* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=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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