--- title: He really thought this was true, and Wendy, who was now in her night… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: He really thought this was true, and Wendy, who was now in her night-gown, believed it also, and she said, to encourage Michael, “That medicine you sometimes take, father, is much nastier, isn’t it?” Who acts: Michael, this, Wendy, you. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHAD --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/3/100/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Peter Pan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/) / [Chapter II. THE SHADOW](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/3/) / 100 # Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 100 He really thought this was true, and Wendy, who was now in her night-gown, believed it also, and she said, to encourage Michael, “That medicine you sometimes take, father, is much nastier, isn’t it?” **Who acts:** Michael, this, Wendy, you, medicine · **What happens:** think, be, believe, say, encourage, take · **To what, where:** night gown, gown, Michael, medicine · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Michael, this, Wendy, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg16:3:100 # text = He really thought this was true, and Wendy, who was now in her night-gown, believed it also, and she said, to encourage Michael, “That medicine you sometimes take, father, is much nastier, isn’t it?” 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 really really ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 9 Wendy Wendy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 11 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 13 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 16 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 gown gown NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 20 believed believe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 also also ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 encourage encourage VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ _ 30 Michael Michael PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 32 “ " PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 det _ _ 34 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 37 advmod _ _ 37 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 42 much much ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 nastier nasty ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 46 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 conj _ _ 47 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ? ? PUNCT . _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ” " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Michael | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | this | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | Wendy | | | Wendy's night gown | now | | tree rules | | 4 | **believe** | past | Wendy | gown | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Wendy | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **encourage** | to-infinitive | | Michael | | | | | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent michael=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **take** *in a quote* | present | you | that medicine and father *not said here* | | | | sometimes *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme | | 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that medicine and father | | | | | nasty *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/3/99/) - next →: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/3/101/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. THE SHADOW](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/3/)