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title: Mr. Darling would cry, and Nana’s bark was the echo of it, but Mrs.… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Darling would cry, and Nana’s bark was the echo of it, but Mrs. Darling never upbraided Peter; there was something in the right-hand corner of her mouth that wanted her not to call Peter names. Who acts: Darling, bark, Mrs., something. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE S
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# Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 30

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Mr. Darling would cry, and Nana’s bark was the echo of it, but Mrs. Darling never upbraided Peter; there was something in the right-hand corner of her mouth that wanted her not to call Peter names.

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**Who acts:** Darling, bark, Mrs., something, mouth · **What happens:** cry, be, not upbraid, want, not call · **To what, where:** echo, Peter, Darling, Peter names · **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, bark, Mrs., something), 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:pg16:3:30
# text = Mr. Darling would cry, and Nana’s bark was the echo of it, but Mrs. Darling never upbraided Peter; there was something in the right-hand corner of her mouth that wanted her not to call Peter names.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	Nana	Nana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	echo	echo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	upbraided	upbraid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
25	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	nsubj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
41	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | would | Darling  Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Nana's bark | the echo |  |  |  | of echo | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **upbraid** | past | Mrs. | Peter |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peter=Theme |
| 4 | **be** | past | something |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **want** | past | Darling's mouth | Darling |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **call** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Darling *not said here* | Peter names |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient |

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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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