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title: They affected to ignore her as of an inferior social status to thems… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: They affected to ignore her as of an inferior social status to themselves, and she despised their light talk. Who acts: kinds, Nana. 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 44

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They affected to ignore her as of an inferior social status to themselves, and she despised their light talk.

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**Who acts:** kinds, Nana · **What happens:** affect, ignore, despise, talk · **To what, where:** Nana, kinds, light 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 (kinds, 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:pg16:2:44
# text = They affected to ignore her as of an inferior social status to themselves, and she despised their light talk.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	affected	affect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	ignore	ignore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	11	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	inferior	inferior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	status	status	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	despised	despise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **affect** | past | kinds *= kind* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ignore** | to-infinitive | kinds *= kind* *not said here* | Nana | kinds *= kind* |  |  | as a inferior social status | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **despise** | past | Nana | kinds's light talk |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer talk=Stimulus |
| 4 | **talk** |  | kinds *= kind* |  |  |  |  |  | nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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