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title: And thus when Liza entered, holding Nana, the nursery seemed quite i… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: And thus when Liza entered, holding Nana, the nursery seemed quite its old self, very dark, and you would have sworn you heard its three wicked inmates breathing angelically as they slept. Who acts: Liza, nursery, you, three wicked inmates. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COM
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# Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 247

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And thus when Liza entered, holding Nana, the nursery seemed quite its old self, very dark, and you would have sworn you heard its three wicked inmates breathing angelically as they slept.

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**Who acts:** Liza, nursery, you, three wicked inmates, inmates · **What happens:** enter, hold, seem, swear, hear, breathe · **To what, where:** Nana, old self, three wicked inmates

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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 (Liza, nursery, you, three wicked inmates), 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:pg16:4:247
# text = And thus when Liza entered, holding Nana, the nursery seemed quite its old self, very dark, and you would have sworn you heard its three wicked inmates breathing angelically as they slept.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	Liza	Liza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	Nana	Nana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	16	det:predet	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux	_	_
25	sworn	swear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
29	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
30	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	inmates	inmate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
32	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
33	angelically	angelically	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | Liza |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | Liza *not said here* | Nana |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nana=Theme |
| 3 | **seem** | past | the nursery | nursery's old self |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme self=Attribute |
| 4 | **swear** | would · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **hear** | past | you | nursery's three wicked inmates |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer inmate=Stimulus |
| 6 | **breathe** | gerund | nursery's three wicked inmates *not said here* |  |  |  |  | angelically *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **sleep** | past | inmates *= inmate* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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