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title: She resented visits to the nursery from Mrs. Darling’s friends, but… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: She resented visits to the nursery from Mrs. Darling’s friends, but if they did come she first whipped off Michael’s pinafore and put him into the one with blue braiding, and smoothed out Wendy and made a dash at John’s hair. Who acts: Nana, visits. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter
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# Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 45

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She resented visits to the nursery from Mrs. Darling’s friends, but if they did come she first whipped off Michael’s pinafore and put him into the one with blue braiding, and smoothed out Wendy and made a dash at John’s hair.

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**Who acts:** Nana, visits · **What happens:** resent, come, whip off, put, smooth out, make · **To what, where:** visits, pinafore, Michael, Wendy, dash, hair

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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, visits), 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:pg16:2:45
# text = She resented visits to the nursery from Mrs. Darling’s friends, but if they did come she first whipped off Michael’s pinafore and put him into the one with blue braiding, and smoothed out Wendy and made a dash at John’s hair.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	resented	resent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	advmod	_	_
20	whipped	whip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	obl	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	pinafore	pinafore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	braiding	braiding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	smoothed	smooth	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
37	out	out	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	dash	dash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	’s	's	PART	POS	_	44	case	_	_
46	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	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 | **resent** | past | Nana | visits |  |  |  | to the nursery; from Mrs. Darling's friends | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer visit=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | visits *= visit* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **whip off** | past | Nana | Michael's pinafore |  |  |  | first *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent pinafore=Material |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive | visits *= visit* *not said here* |  | Michael |  |  | into the one with blue braiding | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |
| 5 | **smooth out** | participle |  | Wendy |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wendy=Patient |
| 6 | **make** | past |  | a dash |  | John's hair |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dash=Product |

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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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