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title: He thought Mrs. Darling was not sufficiently impressed, and he went… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: He thought Mrs. Darling was not sufficiently impressed, and he went on sternly, “I warn you of this, mother, that unless this tie is round my neck we don’t go out to dinner to-night, and if I don’t go out to dinner to-night, I never go to the office again, and if I don’t go to the office again, you 
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# Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 69

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He thought Mrs. Darling was not sufficiently impressed, and he went on sternly, “I warn you of this, mother, that unless this tie is round my neck we don’t go out to dinner to-night, and if I don’t go out to dinner to-night, I never go to the office again, and if I don’t go to the office again, you and I starve, and our children will be flung into the streets.”

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**Who acts:** George, Mrs. Darling, tie, mother · **What happens:** think, not be, go on, warn, be, not go out · **To what, where:** mother, you, office, children, streets · **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 (George, Mrs. Darling, tie, mother), 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:pg16:3:69
# text = He thought Mrs. Darling was not sufficiently impressed, and he went on sternly, “I warn you of this, mother, that unless this tie is round my neck we don’t go out to dinner to-night, and if I don’t go out to dinner to-night, I never go to the office again, and if I don’t go to the office again, you and I starve, and our children will be flung into the streets.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	impressed	impressed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	on	on	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	sternly	sternly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	warn	warn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
26	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	tie	tie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	round	round	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	advcl	_	_
33	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
37	out	out	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
45	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
46	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
47	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
49	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	parataxis	_	_
50	out	out	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
57	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
58	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	59	advmod	_	_
59	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
60	to	to	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	_
63	again	again	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	70	punct	_	_
65	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	70	cc	_	_
66	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	70	mark	_	_
67	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	70	nsubj	_	_
68	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	70	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	70	advmod	_	_
70	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	conj	_	_
71	to	to	ADP	IN	_	73	case	_	_
72	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	73	det	_	_
73	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	obl	_	_
74	again	again	ADV	RB	_	70	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
76	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
77	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	79	cc	_	_
78	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	79	nsubj	_	_
79	starve	starve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
80	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	86	punct	_	_
81	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	86	cc	_	_
82	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	83	nmod:poss	_	_
83	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	86	nsubj:pass	_	_
84	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	86	aux	_	_
85	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	86	aux:pass	_	_
86	flung	fling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
87	into	into	ADP	IN	_	89	case	_	_
88	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	89	det	_	_
89	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	86	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
90	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
91	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | George |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | Mrs. Darling |  |  |  |  | impressed, sufficiently *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go on** | past | George |  |  |  |  | sternly *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **warn** *speech: warn* *in a quote* | present | George | mother | you |  |  | of this | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | this tie |  |  |  |  | round my neck | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **go out** *in a quote* | present · do-support | mother |  |  |  | night | to dinner; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **go out** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | George |  |  |  | night | to dinner; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | present | George |  |  | the office | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to office=Initial\_Location |
| 9 | **not** **go** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | George |  |  | the office | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to office=Initial\_Location |
| 10 | **starve** *in a quote* | present | George |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **fling** *in a quote* | future · passive |  | our children |  | the streets |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme into street=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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