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title: Occasionally in her travels through her children’s minds Mrs. Darlin… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Occasionally in her travels through her children’s minds Mrs. Darling found things she could not understand, and of these quite the most perplexing was the word Peter. Who acts: Mrs. Darling, pond, these, children. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, with its 
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# Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 75

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Occasionally in her travels through her children’s minds Mrs. Darling found things she could not understand, and of these quite the most perplexing was the word Peter.

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**Who acts:** Mrs. Darling, pond, these, children · **What happens:** travel, find, not understand, perplex, be, mind · **To what, where:** minds, things

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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. Darling, pond, these, 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:pg16:2:75
# text = Occasionally in her travels through her children’s minds Mrs. Darling found things she could not understand, and of these quite the most perplexing was the word Peter.
1	Occasionally	occasionally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	travels	travel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Darling	darling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
21	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
22	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	28	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
24	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	25	advmod	_	_
25	perplexing	perplex	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	amod	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
29	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | present |  |  |  | pond's children's minds |  | occasionally *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through mind=Trajectory |
| 2 | **find** | past | Mrs. Darling | things |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **understand** | could | pond | things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 4 | **perplex** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | past | these |  |  |  |  | of quite perplexing word | tree rules |
| 6 | **mind** |  | pond'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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