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title: You would see her on her knees, I expect, lingering humorously over… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: You would see her on her knees, I expect, lingering humorously over some of your contents, wondering where on earth you had picked this thing up, making discoveries sweet and not so sweet, pressing this to her cheek as if it were as nice as a kitten, and hurriedly stowing that out of sight. Who acts
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# Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 60

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You would see her on her knees, I expect, lingering humorously over some of your contents, wondering where on earth you had picked this thing up, making discoveries sweet and not so sweet, pressing this to her cheek as if it were as nice as a kitten, and hurriedly stowing that out of sight.

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**Who acts:** You, I, thing · **What happens:** see, expect, linger, wonder, pick up, make · **To what, where:** mother, knees, some, you, earth, discoveries · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, I, thing), 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:pg16:2:60
# text = You would see her on her knees, I expect, lingering humorously over some of your contents, wondering where on earth you had picked this thing up, making discoveries sweet and not so sweet, pressing this to her cheek as if it were as nice as a kitten, and hurriedly stowing that out of sight.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	expect	expect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	lingering	linger	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	humorously	humorously	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	ccomp	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
32	discoveries	discovery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	pressing	press	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
40	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	obj	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
45	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
47	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
48	as	as	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	advcl	_	_
50	as	as	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	kitten	kitten	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	hurriedly	hurriedly	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	stowing	stow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
57	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	56	obj	_	_
58	out	out	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | would | You | mother |  | mother's knees |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 2 | **expect** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **linger** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  | some |  | humorously *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over some=Location |
| 4 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **pick up** | past · perfect · passive |  | you |  | earth |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** | gerund | I *not said here* | discoveries |  |  |  | sweet *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset discovery=Product |
| 7 | **press** | gerund | I *not said here* | this |  |  |  | to mother's cheek | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | past | thing |  |  |  |  | as a kitten; nice *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **stow** | gerund | I *not said here* | that |  | sight |  | hurriedly *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme out sight=Destination |

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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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