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title: “What fun!” he said doubtfully, and they did not dare expose him whe… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “What fun!” he said doubtfully, and they did not dare expose him when Mrs. Darling and Nana returned. Who acts: father, children, Mrs.. 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 147

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“What fun!” he said doubtfully, and they did not dare expose him when Mrs. Darling and Nana returned.

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**Who acts:** father, children, Mrs. · **What happens:** say, not dare, not expose, return · **To what, where:** father · **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 (father, children, Mrs.), 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:pg16:3:147
# text = “What fun!” he said doubtfully, and they did not dare expose him when Mrs. Darling and Nana returned.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	doubtfully	doubtfully	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
15	expose	expose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
18	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Nana	Nana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | father |  |  |  |  | doubtfully *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **dare** | past · do-support | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **expose** | infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | father |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Topic |
| 4 | **return** | past | Mrs. and Nana |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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