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title: Wendy said “tea first” quickly, and Michael pressed her hand in grat… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Wendy said “tea first” quickly, and Michael pressed her hand in gratitude, but the braver John hesitated. Who acts: Wendy, Michael, braver John. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 102

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Wendy said “tea first” quickly, and Michael pressed her hand in gratitude, but the braver John hesitated.

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**Who acts:** Wendy, Michael, braver John · **What happens:** say, press, hesitate · **To what, where:** tea, hand, gratitude · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wendy, Michael, braver John), 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:pg16:5:102
# text = Wendy said “tea first” quickly, and Michael pressed her hand in gratitude, but the braver John hesitated.
1	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	braver	brave	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Wendy | tea |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tea=Topic |
| 2 | **press** | past | Michael | Wendy's hand |  | gratitude |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 3 | **hesitate** | past | the braver John |  |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

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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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