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title: She had believed in him at the time, but now that she was married an… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: She had believed in him at the time, but now that she was married and full of sense she quite doubted whether there was any such person. Who acts: way, such person. 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 84

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She had believed in him at the time, but now that she was married and full of sense she quite doubted whether there was any such person.

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**Who acts:** way, such person · **What happens:** believe, marry, doubt, be · **To what, where:** way, sense

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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 (way, such person), 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:pg16:2:84
# text = She had believed in him at the time, but now that she was married and full of sense she quite doubted whether there was any such person.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	doubted	doubt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
26	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
27	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | past · perfect | way |  |  |  | time | in Peter | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **marry** | past · passive |  | way |  |  | now |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **doubt** | past | way | sense *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent sense=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **be** | past | any such person |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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