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title: Of course Mrs. Darling brushed him, but he began to talk again about… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course Mrs. Darling brushed him, but he began to talk again about its being a mistake to have a dog for a nurse. Who acts: Darling, most. 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 82

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Of course Mrs. Darling brushed him, but he began to talk again about its being a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.

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**Who acts:** Darling, most · **What happens:** brush, begin, talk, be, have · **To what, where:** most, dog

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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 (Darling, most), 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:pg16:3:82
# text = Of course Mrs. Darling brushed him, but he began to talk again about its being a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	brushed	brush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brush** | past | Darling | most |  |  |  | of Mrs. | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme of mrs.=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **begin** | past | most |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **talk** | to-infinitive | most *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about course's mistake | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | to-infinitive | most *not said here* | a dog |  |  |  | for a nurse | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |

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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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