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title: Mr. Darling would have rushed upstairs, but Mrs. Darling signed him… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Darling would have rushed upstairs, but Mrs. Darling signed him to go softly. Who acts: Mrs. Darling. 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 312

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Mr. Darling would have rushed upstairs, but Mrs. Darling signed him to go softly.

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**Who acts:** Mrs. Darling · **What happens:** rush, sign, go · **To what, where:** Mr. Darling, dog

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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 (Mrs. Darling), 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:pg16:4:312
# text = Mr. Darling would have rushed upstairs, but Mrs. Darling signed him to go softly.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Darling	darling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	signed	sign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | would · perfect · passive |  | Mr. Darling |  |  |  | upstairs *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 2 | **sign** | past | Mrs. Darling | dog |  |  |  |  | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V NP.recipient when S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | Mrs. Darling *not said here* |  |  |  |  | softly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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