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description: For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him. Who acts: children, event, that. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, with its dependency tree a
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# Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 93

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For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.

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**Who acts:** children, event, that · **What happens:** remember, mention, happen, be, meet, have · **To what, where:** wood, dead father, game

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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 (children, event, that), 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:pg16:2:93
# text = For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	mention	mention	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | may | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | for instance | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **mention** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  | week |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **happen** | past | the event |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | that |  |  | the wood |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **meet** | past · perfect | children *= child* | children's dead father |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **have** | past | children *= child* *not said here* | a game |  |  |  | with event | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=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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