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title: If so, how delightful for them, and we shall all breathe a sigh of r… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: If so, how delightful for them, and we shall all breathe a sigh of relief, but there will be no story. Who acts: we, story. 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 315

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If so, how delightful for them, and we shall all breathe a sigh of relief, but there will be no story.

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**Who acts:** we, story · **What happens:** breathe, be, sigh · **To what, where:** sigh, relief

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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 (we, story), 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:pg16:4:315
# text = If so, how delightful for them, and we shall all breathe a sigh of relief, but there will be no story.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sigh	sigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	relief	relief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breathe** | shall | we | a sigh of relief |  |  |  | all *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | future | no story |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sigh** |  |  | relief |  |  |  |  | nom sigh «communication transitive»: of=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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