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title: If you could keep awake (but of course you can’t) you would see your… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: If you could keep awake (but of course you can’t) you would see your own mother doing this, and you would find it very interesting to watch her. Who acts: you, own mother. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 58

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If you could keep awake (but of course you can’t) you would see your own mother doing this, and you would find it very interesting to watch her.

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**Who acts:** you, own mother · **What happens:** keep, see, do, find, watch · **To what, where:** own mother, this, course, mother

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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 (you, own mother), 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:pg16:2:58
# text = If you could keep awake (but of course you can’t) you would see your own mother doing this, and you would find it very interesting to watch her.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	11	advmod	_	_
9	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	fixed	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | could | you |  |  |  |  | awake *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | would | you | your own mother |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | gerund | your own mother *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 4 | **find** | would | you | course |  |  |  | interesting *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 5 | **watch** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | mother |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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