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title: The opportunity came a week later, on that never-to-be-forgotten Fri… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The opportunity came a week later, on that never-to-be-forgotten Friday. Who acts: opportunity. 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 13

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The opportunity came a week later, on that never-to-be-forgotten Friday.

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**Who acts:** opportunity · **What happens:** come, not forget

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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 (opportunity), 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:pg16:3:13
# text = The opportunity came a week later, on that never-to-be-forgotten Friday.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the opportunity |  |  |  | friday | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **forget** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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