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title: It had begun so uneventfully, so precisely like a hundred other even… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: It had begun so uneventfully, so precisely like a hundred other evenings, with Nana putting on the water for Michael’s bath and carrying him to it on her back. Who acts: detail, Nana. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 32

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It had begun so uneventfully, so precisely like a hundred other evenings, with Nana putting on the water for Michael’s bath and carrying him to it on her back.

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**Who acts:** detail, Nana · **What happens:** begin, put, carry · **To what, where:** water, Michael, detail, back

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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 (detail, Nana), 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:pg16:3:32
# text = It had begun so uneventfully, so precisely like a hundred other evenings, with Nana putting on the water for Michael’s bath and carrying him to it on her back.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	begun	begin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	uneventfully	uneventfully	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	precisely	precisely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	evenings	evening	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	Nana	Nana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past · perfect | detail |  |  |  | evening | uneventfully *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **put** | gerund | Nana |  |  | the water |  | for Michael's bath | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on water=Destination |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | Nana *not said here* | Michael | detail | Nana's back |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to it=Destination |

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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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