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title: For a moment after Mr. and Mrs. Darling left the house the night-lig… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: For a moment after Mr. and Mrs. Darling left the house the night-lights by the beds of the three children continued to burn clearly. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 1

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For a moment after Mr. and Mrs. Darling left the house the night-lights by the beds of the three children continued to burn clearly.

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**What happens:** leave, continue, burn · **To what, where:** house, three children

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg16:4:1
# text = For a moment after Mr. and Mrs. Darling left the house the night-lights by the beds of the three children continued to burn clearly.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
23	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
26	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past |  | the house |  |  | moment | by the beds of the three children | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent house=Theme light=Attribute |
| 2 | **continue** | participle |  | the three children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **burn** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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