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title: She thought of showing it to Mr. Darling, but he was totting up wint… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: She thought of showing it to Mr. Darling, but he was totting up winter great-coats for John and Michael, with a wet towel around his head to keep his brain clear, and it seemed a shame to trouble him; besides, she knew exactly what he would say: “It all comes of having a dog for a nurse.” Who acts: 
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# Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 10

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She thought of showing it to Mr. Darling, but he was totting up winter great-coats for John and Michael, with a wet towel around his head to keep his brain clear, and it seemed a shame to trouble him; besides, she knew exactly what he would say: “It all comes of having a dog for a nurse.”

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**Who acts:** Darling, Mr., it, shadow · **What happens:** think, show, tot up, keep, seem, know · **To what, where:** shadow, Darling, winter great coats, brain, shame, dog · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darling, Mr., it, shadow), 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:pg16:3:10
# text = She thought of showing it to Mr. Darling, but he was totting up winter great-coats for John and Michael, with a wet towel around his head to keep his brain clear, and it seemed a shame to trouble him; besides, she knew exactly what he would say: “It all comes of having a dog for a nurse.”
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	totting	tot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	coats	coat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	towel	towel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
28	around	around	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
44	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	besides	besides	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
50	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	54	obj	_	_
52	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
53	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	59	punct	_	_
56	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
58	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	57	det	_	_
59	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	parataxis	_	_
60	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	61	mark	_	_
61	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	59	advcl	_	_
62	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obj	_	_
64	for	for	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Darling |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **show** | gerund | Darling *not said here* | shadow | Darling  Mr. |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to darling=Recipient |
| 3 | **tot up** | past · progressive | Mr. | winter great coats |  |  |  | for John and Michael; with a wet towel around Mr.'s head | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Mr. *not said here* | Mr.'s brain |  |  |  | clear *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Theme |
| 5 | **seem** | past | it | a shame and trouble |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shame=Attribute |
| 6 | **know** | past | Darling |  |  |  |  | besides *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **come** *in a quote* | present | shadow |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **have** *in a quote* | gerund | shadow *not said here* | a dog |  |  |  | for a nurse | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=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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