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title: Really, he thought they had now talked enough about fairies, and it… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Really, he thought they had now talked enough about fairies, and it struck him that Tinker Bell was keeping very quiet. Who acts: tinkle, children, lot, Tinker Bell. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 114

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Really, he thought they had now talked enough about fairies, and it struck him that Tinker Bell was keeping very quiet.

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**Who acts:** tinkle, children, lot, Tinker Bell · **What happens:** think, talk, strike, keep · **To what, where:** tinkle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (tinkle, children, lot, Tinker Bell), 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:pg16:4:114
# text = Really, he thought they had now talked enough about fairies, and it struck him that Tinker Bell was keeping very quiet.
1	Really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	talked	talk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
9	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	Tinker	Tinker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Bell	Bell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | tinkle |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **talk** | past · perfect | children *= child* |  |  |  | now | about fairies; enough *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about fairy=Topic |
| 3 | **strike** | past | lot | tinkle |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument |
| 4 | **keep** | past · progressive | Tinker Bell |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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