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title: “George,” Mrs. Darling entreated him, “not so loud; the servants wil… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “George,” Mrs. Darling entreated him, “not so loud; the servants will hear you.” Who acts: George, servants. 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 162

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“George,” Mrs. Darling entreated him, “not so loud; the servants will hear you.”

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**Who acts:** George, servants · **What happens:** entreat, hear · **To what, where:** boy, you · **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 (George, servants), 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:pg16:3:162
# text = “George,” Mrs. Darling entreated him, “not so loud; the servants will hear you.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
6	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
7	entreated	entreat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **entreat** | past | George | boy |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hear** *in a quote* | future | the servants | you |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |

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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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