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description: Then one or more of them would break down altogether; Nana at the thought, “It’s true, it’s true, they ought not to have had a dog for a nurse.” Who acts: one, thought, master. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 27

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Then one or more of them would break down altogether; Nana at the thought, “It’s true, it’s true, they ought not to have had a dog for a nurse.”

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**Who acts:** one, thought, master · **What happens:** break down, be, not have · **To what, where:** Nana, thought, dog · **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 (one, thought, master), 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:pg16:3:27
# text = Then one or more of them would break down altogether; Nana at the thought, “It’s true, it’s true, they ought not to have had a dog for a nurse.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Nana	Nana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
27	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux	_	_
31	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	parataxis	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break down** | would | one of master | Nana |  | the thought | then | altogether *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | thought |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | thought |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | ought · perfect | master | a dog |  |  |  | for a nurse | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=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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