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title: Some men would have resented her being able to do it so easily, but… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Some men would have resented her being able to do it so easily, but Mr. Darling had far too fine a nature for that; he thanked her carelessly, at once forgot his rage, and in another moment was dancing round the room with Michael on his back. Who acts: men, fate, Darling, nature. A sentence of «Pete
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# Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 72

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Some men would have resented her being able to do it so easily, but Mr. Darling had far too fine a nature for that; he thanked her carelessly, at once forgot his rage, and in another moment was dancing round the room with Michael on his back.

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**Who acts:** men, fate, Darling, nature · **What happens:** resent, be, do, thank, forget, dance · **To what, where:** tie, fate, rage, 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 (men, fate, Darling, nature), 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:pg16:3:72
# text = Some men would have resented her being able to do it so easily, but Mr. Darling had far too fine a nature for that; he thanked her carelessly, at once forgot his rage, and in another moment was dancing round the room with Michael on his back.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	resented	resent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
8	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:desc	_	_
17	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
20	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	carelessly	carelessly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	34	advmod	_	_
34	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	41	det	_	_
41	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	parataxis	_	_
44	round	round	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
49	on	on	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resent** | would · perfect | some men |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | fate |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | fate *not said here* | tie |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 4 | **be** | past | Darling  Mr. |  |  |  |  | for that; far *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | nature |  | fate |  |  | carelessly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 6 | **forget** | past | nature *not said here* | nature's rage |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **dance** | past · progressive |  |  |  | nature's back | moment | round the room; with Michael | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Location |
| 8 | **rage** |  | nature |  |  |  |  |  | nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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