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description: They would sit there in the empty nursery, recalling fondly every smallest detail of that dreadful evening. Who acts: names. 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 31

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They would sit there in the empty nursery, recalling fondly every smallest detail of that dreadful evening.

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**Who acts:** names · **What happens:** sit, recall, detail · **To what, where:** empty nursery, smallest detail, dreadful evening

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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 (names), 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:pg16:3:31
# text = They would sit there in the empty nursery, recalling fondly every smallest detail of that dreadful evening.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	recalling	recall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	fondly	fondly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
13	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	detail	detail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | would | names *= name* |  |  | the empty nursery; there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nursery=Location |
| 2 | **recall** | gerund | names *= name* *not said here* | every smallest detail of that dreadful evening |  |  |  | fondly *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Theme |
| 3 | **detail** |  |  | that dreadful evening |  |  |  |  | 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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