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title: They sat thus night after night recalling that fatal Friday, till ev… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: They sat thus night after night recalling that fatal Friday, till every detail of it was stamped on their brains and came through on the other side like the faces on a bad coinage. Who acts: shame. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 20

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They sat thus night after night recalling that fatal Friday, till every detail of it was stamped on their brains and came through on the other side like the faces on a bad coinage.

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**Who acts:** shame · **What happens:** sit, recall, stamp, come through, detail · **To what, where:** detail, brains, other side, education

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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 (shame), 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:pg16:3:20
# text = They sat thus night after night recalling that fatal Friday, till every detail of it was stamped on their brains and came through on the other side like the faces on a bad coinage.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	recalling	recall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	detail	detail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	stamped	stamp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	through	through	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	coinage	coinage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | shame |  |  |  | night |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **recall** | gerund | shame *not said here* |  |  |  | friday |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stamp** | past · passive |  | every detail of education |  | shame's brains |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme on brain=Destination |
| 4 | **come through** | past | shame *not said here* |  |  | the other side like the faces on a bad coinage |  | through *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location |
| 5 | **detail** |  |  | education |  |  |  |  | nom detail «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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