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title: There never was a simpler happier family until the coming of Peter P… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: There never was a simpler happier family until the coming of Peter Pan. Who acts: simpler family. 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 55

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There never was a simpler happier family until the coming of Peter Pan.

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**Who acts:** simpler family · **What happens:** not be, come

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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 (simpler family), 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:pg16:2:55
# text = There never was a simpler happier family until the coming of Peter Pan.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	simpler	simple	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
6	happier	happy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
7	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
8	until	until	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	_
12	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Pan	Pan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **be** | past | a simpler family |  |  | there | until the Peter Pan |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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