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title: She had always thought children important, however, and the Darlings… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: She had always thought children important, however, and the Darlings had become acquainted with her in Kensington Gardens, where she spent most of her spare time peeping into perambulators, and was much hated by careless nursemaids, whom she followed to their homes and complained of to their mistres
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# Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 34

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She had always thought children important, however, and the Darlings had become acquainted with her in Kensington Gardens, where she spent most of her spare time peeping into perambulators, and was much hated by careless nursemaids, whom she followed to their homes and complained of to their mistresses.

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**Who acts:** Nana, Darlings, careless nursemaids · **What happens:** think, become, spend, peep, hate, follow · **To what, where:** most, careless nursemaids, homes, mistresses

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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 (Nana, Darlings, careless nursemaids), 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:pg16:2:34
# text = She had always thought children important, however, and the Darlings had become acquainted with her in Kensington Gardens, where she spent most of her spare time peeping into perambulators, and was much hated by careless nursemaids, whom she followed to their homes and complained of to their mistresses.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	however	however	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Darlings	darling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
15	acquainted	acquainted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Kensington	Kensington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Gardens	Garden	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	spare	spare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	peeping	peep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	advcl	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	perambulators	perambulator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
36	much	much	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	hated	hate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	careless	careless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	nursemaids	nursemaid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	obj	_	_
43	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	complained	complain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	obl	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	mistresses	mistress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · perfect | Nana |  |  |  |  | always, however *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **become** | past · perfect | the Darlings |  |  |  |  | acquainted *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **spend** | past | Nana | most of Nana's spare time |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Asset |
| 4 | **peep** | gerund | Nana *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into perambulators | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into perambulator=Theme |
| 5 | **hate** | past · passive | careless nursemaids |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **follow** | past | Nana | careless nursemaids |  | children's homes |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent whom=Theme to home=Trajectory |
| 7 | **complain** *speech: other* | past | careless nursemaids *not said here* |  | children's mistresses |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mistress=Recipient |

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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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