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title: “A little!” she replied with hauteur; “if I am no use I can at least… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “A little!” she replied with hauteur; “if I am no use I can at least withdraw,” and she sprang in the most dignified way into bed and covered her face with the blankets. Who acts: Wendy. 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 78

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“A little!” she replied with hauteur; “if I am no use I can at least withdraw,” and she sprang in the most dignified way into bed and covered her face with the blankets.

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**Who acts:** Wendy · **What happens:** reply, be, withdraw, spring, cover · **To what, where:** little, use, least, dignified way, face · **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), 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:pg16:4:78
# text = “A little!” she replied with hauteur; “if I am no use I can at least withdraw,” and she sprang in the most dignified way into bed and covered her face with the blankets.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	hauteur	hauteur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	obl	_	_
21	withdraw	withdraw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	30	advmod	_	_
30	dignified	dignified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	blankets	blanket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Wendy | a little |  |  |  | with hauteur | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with hauteur=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | Wendy | no use |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **withdraw** *in a quote* | can | Wendy | no use *not said here* |  | least |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Theme |
| 4 | **spring** | past | Wendy |  |  | the dignified way |  | into bed | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bed=Destination |
| 5 | **cover** | past | Wendy *not said here* | Wendy's face |  |  |  | with the blankets | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination with blanket=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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