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title: There was the same excitement over John, and Michael had even a narr… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: There was the same excitement over John, and Michael had even a narrower squeak; but both were kept, and soon, you might have seen the three of them going in a row to Miss Fulsom’s Kindergarten school, accompanied by their nurse. Who acts: same excitement, Michael, you, three. A sentence of «Peter P
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# Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 31

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There was the same excitement over John, and Michael had even a narrower squeak; but both were kept, and soon, you might have seen the three of them going in a row to Miss Fulsom’s Kindergarten school, accompanied by their nurse.

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**Who acts:** same excitement, Michael, you, three · **What happens:** be, have, keep, see, go, accompany · **To what, where:** narrower squeak, both, three, row

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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 (same excitement, Michael, you, three), 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:pg16:2:31
# text = There was the same excitement over John, and Michael had even a narrower squeak; but both were kept, and soon, you might have seen the three of them going in a row to Miss Fulsom’s Kindergarten school, accompanied by their nurse.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	excitement	excitement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	narrower	narrow	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	squeak	squeak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux	_	_
28	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	_
33	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	xcomp	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
38	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Fulsom	Fulsom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’s	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	Kindergarten	Kindergarten	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
45	by	by	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | the same excitement over John |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | Michael | a narrower squeak |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squeak=Patient |
| 3 | **keep** | past · passive |  | both |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | might · perfect | you | the three of John |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | gerund | the three of John *not said here* |  |  | a row |  | to Miss Fulsom's Kindergarten school | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **accompany** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by John's nurse | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by nurse=Destination |

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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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