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title: “It will soon be over, father,” John said cheerily, and then in rush… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “It will soon be over, father,” John said cheerily, and then in rushed Wendy with the medicine in a glass. Who acts: way, father. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 109

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“It will soon be over, father,” John said cheerily, and then in rushed Wendy with the medicine in a glass.

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**Who acts:** way, father · **What happens:** be, say, rush · **To what, where:** Wendy, glass · **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 (way, father), 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:pg16:3:109
# text = “It will soon be over, father,” John said cheerily, and then in rushed Wendy with the medicine in a glass.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	cheerily	cheerily	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | future | way |  |  |  |  | over, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | father |  |  |  |  | cheerily *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rush** | past | father *not said here* | Wendy |  | a glass | then | with the medicine | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent wendy=Theme in glass=Trajectory |

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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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