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title: It was all owing to his too affectionate nature, which craved for ad… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: It was all owing to his too affectionate nature, which craved for admiration. Who acts: nursery, affectionate nature. 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 174

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It was all owing to his too affectionate nature, which craved for admiration.

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**Who acts:** nursery, affectionate nature · **What happens:** owe, crave · **To what, where:** affectionate nature

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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 (nursery, affectionate nature), 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:pg16:3:174
# text = It was all owing to his too affectionate nature, which craved for admiration.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	owing	owe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	affectionate	affectionate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	craved	crave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **owe** | past · progressive | nursery |  |  |  |  | to George's affectionate nature *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to nature=Goal |
| 2 | **crave** | past | George's affectionate nature |  |  |  |  | for admiration | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for admiration=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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