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title: “Wendy,” he continued, in a voice that no woman has ever yet been ab… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Wendy,” he continued, in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, “Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.” Who acts: Wendy, woman, voice, one girl. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 83

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“Wendy,” he continued, in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, “Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.”

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**Who acts:** Wendy, woman, voice, one girl · **What happens:** continue, have, be, resist · **To what, where:** voice, more use

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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, woman, voice, one girl), 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:pg16:4:83
# text = “Wendy,” he continued, in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, “Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
16	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
18	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	resist	resist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
30	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | Wendy |  |  | a voice |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | present | no woman | a voice |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | participle | a voice *not said here* |  |  |  | ever; yet | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **resist** | to-infinitive | a voice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | one girl | more use |  |  |  | than twenty boys | 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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