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title: Mrs. Darling loved to have everything just so, and Mr. Darling had a… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Mrs. Darling loved to have everything just so, and Mr. Darling had a passion for being exactly like his neighbours; so, of course, they had a nurse. Who acts: Mrs., Darling, neighbours. 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 32

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Mrs. Darling loved to have everything just so, and Mr. Darling had a passion for being exactly like his neighbours; so, of course, they had a nurse.

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**Who acts:** Mrs., Darling, neighbours · **What happens:** love, have, be · **To what, where:** everything, passion, nurse

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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., Darling, neighbours), 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:pg16:2:32
# text = Mrs. Darling loved to have everything just so, and Mr. Darling had a passion for being exactly like his neighbours; so, of course, they had a nurse.
1	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	obj	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
18	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
26	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | Mrs. |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Mrs. *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | past | Darling  Mr. | a passion |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passion=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for Darling's neighbours; exactly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | neighbours *= neighbour* | a nurse |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nurse=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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