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title: When people in our set are introduced, it is customary for them to a… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: When people in our set are introduced, it is customary for them to ask each other’s age, and so Wendy, who always liked to do the correct thing, asked Peter how old he was. Who acts: face, people, Wendy, Peter. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, with its d
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# Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 94

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When people in our set are introduced, it is customary for them to ask each other’s age, and so Wendy, who always liked to do the correct thing, asked Peter how old he was.

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**Who acts:** face, people, Wendy, Peter · **What happens:** introduce, be, ask, like, do · **To what, where:** people, customary, age, Wendy, correct thing, Peter · **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 (face, people, Wendy, Peter), 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:pg16:4:94
# text = When people in our set are introduced, it is customary for them to ask each other’s age, and so Wendy, who always liked to do the correct thing, asked Peter how old he was.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	customary	customary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
23	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
26	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	27	advmod	_	_
27	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
34	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
35	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	iobj	_	_
36	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
37	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	ccomp	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **introduce** | present · passive |  | people in our set |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | face | customary |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | people | each other's age |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent age=Recipient |
| 4 | **like** | past |  | Wendy |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the correct thing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Wendy |  | Peter |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent peter=Recipient |
| 7 | **is** | past | Peter |  |  |  |  | old *property* | 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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