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title: “If only I had not poured my medicine into Nana’s bowl,” said Mr. Da… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “If only I had not poured my medicine into Nana’s bowl,” said Mr. Darling. Who acts: Darling, my. 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 22

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“If only I had not poured my medicine into Nana’s bowl,” said Mr. Darling.

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**Who acts:** Darling, my · **What happens:** not pour, say, medicine · **To what, where:** medicine, bowl · **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 (Darling, my), 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:pg16:3:22
# text = “If only I had not poured my medicine into Nana’s bowl,” said Mr. Darling.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	Nana	Nana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:desc	_	_
18	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **pour** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · perfect | Darling  Mr. *= darling* | my medicine |  | Nana's bowl |  |  | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme into bowl=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Darling  Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **medicine** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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