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title: Then Mrs. Darling had come in, wearing her white evening-gown. — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Mrs. Darling had come in, wearing her white evening-gown. Who acts: Mrs.. 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 37

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Then Mrs. Darling had come in, wearing her white evening-gown.

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**Who acts:** Mrs. · **What happens:** come in, wear · **To what, where:** white evening gown

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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 (Mrs.), 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:pg16:3:37
# text = Then Mrs. Darling had come in, wearing her white evening-gown.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come in** | past · perfect | Mrs. |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wear** | gerund | Mrs. *not said here* | Mrs.'s white evening gown |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gown=Theme |

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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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