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title: “We were still discussing it, you remember,” says Mr. Darling, “when… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “We were still discussing it, you remember,” says Mr. Darling, “when Nana came in with Michael’s medicine. Who acts: We, you, Darling, Nana. 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 90

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“We were still discussing it, you remember,” says Mr. Darling, “when Nana came in with Michael’s medicine.

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**Who acts:** We, you, Darling, Nana, Michael · **What happens:** discuss, remember, say, come in, medicine · **To what, where:** shadow · **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 (We, you, Darling, Nana), 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:pg16:3:90
# text = “We were still discussing it, you remember,” says Mr. Darling, “when Nana came in with Michael’s medicine.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	discussing	discuss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
12	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:desc	_	_
14	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	Nana	Nana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discuss** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past · progressive | We | shadow |  |  | still |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **remember** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Darling  Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come in** *in a quote* | past | Nana |  |  |  |  | with Michael's medicine | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **medicine** *in a quote* |  | Michael |  |  |  |  |  | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: 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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