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title: But Wendy noticed with gentle concern that Peter did not seem to kno… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: But Wendy noticed with gentle concern that Peter did not seem to know that this was rather an odd way of getting your bread and butter, nor even that there are other ways. Who acts: Wendy, Peter, this, odd way. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, with its dependency tr
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# Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 14

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But Wendy noticed with gentle concern that Peter did not seem to know that this was rather an odd way of getting your bread and butter, nor even that there are other ways.

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**Who acts:** Wendy, Peter, this, odd way, other ways · **What happens:** notice, not seem, know, be, get · **To what, where:** odd way, bread · **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, Peter, this, odd way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg16:591`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg16:5:14
# text = But Wendy noticed with gentle concern that Peter did not seem to know that this was rather an odd way of getting your bread and butter, nor even that there are other ways.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	concern	concern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	_
21	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	32	cc	_	_
29	even	even	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
32	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
33	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | past | Wendy |  |  |  |  | with gentle concern | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **seem** | past · do-support | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **know** | to-infinitive | Peter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | past | this | a odd way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **get** | gerund | a odd way *not said here* | your bread and butter |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bread=Stimulus |
| 6 | **does** | present | other ways |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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