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title: No nursery could possibly have been conducted more correctly, and Mr… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: No nursery could possibly have been conducted more correctly, and Mr. Darling knew it, yet he sometimes wondered uneasily whether the neighbours talked. Who acts: Darling, neighbours. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 46

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No nursery could possibly have been conducted more correctly, and Mr. Darling knew it, yet he sometimes wondered uneasily whether the neighbours talked.

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**Who acts:** Darling, neighbours · **What happens:** conduct, know, wonder, talk · **To what, where:** nursery

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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 (Darling, neighbours), 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:pg16:2:46
# text = No nursery could possibly have been conducted more correctly, and Mr. Darling knew it, yet he sometimes wondered uneasily whether the neighbours talked.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	correctly	correctly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:desc	_	_
13	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	_
20	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	uneasily	uneasily	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conduct** | could · perfect · passive |  | no nursery |  |  |  | correctly, possibly *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | past | Darling  Mr. | nursery |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | Darling |  |  |  |  | sometimes, uneasily *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **talk** | past | the neighbours |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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