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title: “I mean,” Wendy said nicely, remembering that she was hostess, “is t… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “I mean,” Wendy said nicely, remembering that she was hostess, “is that what they put on the letters?” Who acts: Wendy, remembering, sobs. 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 42

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“I mean,” Wendy said nicely, remembering that she was hostess, “is that what they put on the letters?”

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**Who acts:** Wendy, remembering, sobs · **What happens:** mean, say, remember, be, put · **To what, where:** hostess, letters · **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 (Wendy, remembering, sobs), 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:pg16:4:42
# text = “I mean,” Wendy said nicely, remembering that she was hostess, “is that what they put on the letters?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	nicely	nicely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	remembering	remember	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	hostess	hostess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	ccomp	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | Wendy |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Wendy |  |  |  |  | nicely *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **remember** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Wendy | hostess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | remembering |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **put** *in a quote* | past | sobs *= sob* |  |  | the letters |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on letter=Destination |

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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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