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title: She had a genius for knowing when a cough is a thing to have no pati… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: She had a genius for knowing when a cough is a thing to have no patience with and when it needs stocking around your throat. Who acts: Nana, cough. 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 38

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She had a genius for knowing when a cough is a thing to have no patience with and when it needs stocking around your throat.

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**Who acts:** Nana, cough · **What happens:** have, know, be, need, stock · **To what, where:** genius, thing, patience, throat

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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, cough), 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:pg16:2:38
# text = She had a genius for knowing when a cough is a thing to have no patience with and when it needs stocking around your throat.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cough	cough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	stocking	stock	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	_
23	around	around	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Nana | a genius |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genius=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | gerund | Nana *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a cough | a thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | to-infinitive | Nana *not said here* | no patience |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient |
| 5 | **need** | present | cough |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **stock** *not said to happen* | gerund | cough *not said here* |  |  | your throat |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent around throat=Location |

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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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