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title: Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter when she was tidying up her childr… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter when she was tidying up her children’s minds. Who acts: Mrs., children. 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 56

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Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter when she was tidying up her children’s minds.

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**Who acts:** Mrs., children · **What happens:** hear, tidy up, mind · **To what, where:** minds

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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., children), 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:pg16:2:56
# text = Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter when she was tidying up her children’s minds.
1	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	tidying	tidy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Mrs. |  |  |  |  | of Peter; first *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of peter=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tidy up** | past · progressive | Mrs. | Mrs.'s children's minds |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mind** |  | Mrs.'s children |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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