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title: “O George, do you remember Michael suddenly said to me, ‘How did you… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “O George, do you remember Michael suddenly said to me, ‘How did you get to know me, mother?’” Who acts: George, Michael, you. 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 76

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“O George, do you remember Michael suddenly said to me, ‘How did you get to know me, mother?’”

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**Who acts:** George, Michael, you · **What happens:** remember, say, get, know · **To what, where:** Mrs. · **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, Michael, you), 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:pg16:3:76
# text = “O George, do you remember Michael suddenly said to me, ‘How did you get to know me, mother?’”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** *in a quote* | present · do-support | George |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Michael |  | Mrs. |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | past · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **know** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | Mrs. |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |

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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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