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title: Did they really feel hungry at times, or were they merely pretending… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Did they really feel hungry at times, or were they merely pretending, because Peter had such a jolly new way of feeding them? Who acts: John, Peter, jolly new way. 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 12

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Did they really feel hungry at times, or were they merely pretending, because Peter had such a jolly new way of feeding them?

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**Who acts:** John, Peter, jolly new way · **What happens:** do, feel, pretend, have, feed · **To what, where:** jolly new way, John

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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 (John, Peter, jolly new way), 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:pg16:5:12
# text = Did they really feel hungry at times, or were they merely pretending, because Peter had such a jolly new way of feeding them?
1	Did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	22	det:predet	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	jolly	jolly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
23	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **feel** | present | John |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **pretend** | past · progressive | John |  |  |  |  | merely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | Peter | such jolly new way |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient |
| 5 | **feed** | gerund | such jolly new way *not said here* | John |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |

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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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