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title: It was in this casual way that Wendy one morning made a disquieting… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: It was in this casual way that Wendy one morning made a disquieting revelation. Who acts: game, Wendy morning. 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 94

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It was in this casual way that Wendy one morning made a disquieting revelation.

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**Who acts:** game, Wendy morning · **What happens:** be, make, disquiet · **To what, where:** casual way, disquieting revelation

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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 (game, Wendy morning), 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:pg16:2:94
# text = It was in this casual way that Wendy one morning made a disquieting revelation.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	casual	casual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	_
10	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	disquieting	disquiet	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	revelation	revelation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | game |  |  | this casual way |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | Wendy morning | a disquieting revelation |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset revelation=Product |
| 3 | **disquiet** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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