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title: It is humiliating to have to confess that this conceit of Peter was… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: It is humiliating to have to confess that this conceit of Peter was one of his most fascinating qualities. Who acts: cleverness, conceit. 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 73

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It is humiliating to have to confess that this conceit of Peter was one of his most fascinating qualities.

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**Who acts:** cleverness, conceit · **What happens:** humiliate, have, confess, be · **To what, where:** one

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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 (cleverness, conceit), 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:pg16:4:73
# text = It is humiliating to have to confess that this conceit of Peter was one of his most fascinating qualities.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	humiliating	humiliate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	confess	confess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	conceit	conceit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	ccomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
18	fascinating	fascinating	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	qualities	quality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **humiliate** | present · progressive | cleverness |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | cleverness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **confess** | to-infinitive | cleverness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | this conceit of Peter | one |  |  |  | of Peter's most fascinating qualities | tree rules |

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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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