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title: She knew of no Peter, and yet he was here and there in John and Mich… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: She knew of no Peter, and yet he was here and there in John and Michael’s minds, while Wendy’s began to be scrawled all over with him. Who acts: pond, Peter, Wendy, John. 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 76

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She knew of no Peter, and yet he was here and there in John and Michael’s minds, while Wendy’s began to be scrawled all over with him.

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**Who acts:** pond, Peter, Wendy, John · **What happens:** know, be, begin, scrawl, mind · **To what, where:** minds · **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 (pond, Peter, Wendy, John), 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:pg16:2:76
# text = She knew of no Peter, and yet he was here and there in John and Michael’s minds, while Wendy’s began to be scrawled all over with him.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	ccomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
19	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	scrawled	scrawl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	xcomp	_	_
28	all	all	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	over	over	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | pond | John and Michael's minds |  |  |  | of no Peter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer mind=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | Peter |  |  |  | yet | here *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **begin** | past | Wendy |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **scrawl** | to-infinitive · passive | Wendy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Peter; over *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **mind** |  | John and Michael |  |  |  |  |  | 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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