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title: Such a little thing for Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana to recall now,… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Such a little thing for Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana to recall now, but not so little if that was to be Michael’s last night in the nursery. Who acts: that. 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 51

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Such a little thing for Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana to recall now, but not so little if that was to be Michael’s last night in the nursery.

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** recall, be · **To what, where:** last night, nursery

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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 (that), 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:pg16:3:51
# text = Such a little thing for Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana to recall now, but not so little if that was to be Michael’s last night in the nursery.
1	Such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	4	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Nana	Nana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	recall	recall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
25	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	advcl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recall** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | that | Michael's last night |  | the nursery |  |  | tree rules |

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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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