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title: She believed to her last day in old-fashioned remedies like rhubarb… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: She believed to her last day in old-fashioned remedies like rhubarb leaf, and made sounds of contempt over all this new-fangled talk about germs, and so on. Who acts: Nana. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 39

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She believed to her last day in old-fashioned remedies like rhubarb leaf, and made sounds of contempt over all this new-fangled talk about germs, and so on.

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**Who acts:** Nana · **What happens:** believe, make, fangl · **To what, where:** sounds, new fangled talk

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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), 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:pg16:2:39
# text = She believed to her last day in old-fashioned remedies like rhubarb leaf, and made sounds of contempt over all this new-fangled talk about germs, and so on.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	remedies	remedy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	rhubarb	rhubarb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	contempt	contempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
24	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	fangled	fangl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
28	about	about	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	on	on	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	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 | **believe** | past | Nana |  |  |  | day |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **make** | past | Nana *not said here* | sounds of contempt |  | all new fangled talk about germs |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product |
| 3 | **fangl** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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