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title: “Mark my words,” he said, “it is some nonsense Nana has been putting… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Mark my words,” he said, “it is some nonsense Nana has been putting into their heads; just the sort of idea a dog would have. Who acts: Peter, word, sort, my. 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 89

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“Mark my words,” he said, “it is some nonsense Nana has been putting into their heads; just the sort of idea a dog would have.

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**Who acts:** Peter, word, sort, my · **What happens:** mark, say, be, have, word, sort · **To what, where:** words, heads, idea · **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 (Peter, word, sort, my), 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:pg16:2:89
# text = “Mark my words,” he said, “it is some nonsense Nana has been putting into their heads; just the sort of idea a dog would have.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Mark	mark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
14	nonsense	nonsense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Nana	Nana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux	_	_
18	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
23	just	just	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | my words |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | word |  |  | mind's heads |  | put *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | would | the sort of idea |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **word** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **sort** *in a quote* |  |  | idea |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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