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description: And gayest of all was Mrs. Darling, who would pirouette so wildly that all you could see of her was the kiss, and then if you had dashed at her you might have got it. Who acts: Mrs., you, all. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, with its dependency tree and th
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# Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 54

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And gayest of all was Mrs. Darling, who would pirouette so wildly that all you could see of her was the kiss, and then if you had dashed at her you might have got it.

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**Who acts:** Mrs., you, all · **What happens:** be, pirouette, see, dash, get · **To what, where:** Mrs., kiss

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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 (Mrs., you, all), 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:pg16:2:54
# text = And gayest of all was Mrs. Darling, who would pirouette so wildly that all you could see of her was the kiss, and then if you had dashed at her you might have got it.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	gayest	gay	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	nmod:desc	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	pirouette	pirouette	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	wildly	wildly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	nsubj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	dashed	dash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux	_	_
36	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	parataxis	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Mrs. |  |  |  | gayest *nmod:desc* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pirouette** | would | Mrs. |  |  |  |  | wildly *property* | vn waltz-51.5 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | could | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | past | all | the kiss |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **dash** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | at Mrs. | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at she=Trajectory |
| 6 | **get** | might · perfect | you | kiss |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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