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title: Unfortunately Liza returned to her puddings, and Nana, seeing that n… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Unfortunately Liza returned to her puddings, and Nana, seeing that no help would come from her, strained and strained at the chain until at last she broke it. Who acts: Liza, Nana, help. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 264

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Unfortunately Liza returned to her puddings, and Nana, seeing that no help would come from her, strained and strained at the chain until at last she broke it.

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**Who acts:** Liza, Nana, help · **What happens:** return, see, come, strain, break · **To what, where:** chain, help

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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, Nana, help), 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:pg16:4:264
# text = Unfortunately Liza returned to her puddings, and Nana, seeing that no help would come from her, strained and strained at the chain until at last she broke it.
1	Unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Liza	Liza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	puddings	pudding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	Nana	Nana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	strained	strain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	strained	strain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	until	until	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | Liza |  |  |  |  | to Liza's puddings *result*; unfortunately *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to pudding=Result |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | Nana |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **come** | would | no help |  |  |  |  | from Nana | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from she=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **strain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **strain** | participle |  |  |  | the chain |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **break** | past | Nana | help |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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