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title: That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland; but even b… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland; but even birds, carrying maps and consulting them at windy corners, could not have sighted it with these instructions. Who acts: Wendy, birds. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, with its dependency tree and the
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# Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 2

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That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland; but even birds, carrying maps and consulting them at windy corners, could not have sighted it with these instructions.

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**Who acts:** Wendy, birds · **What happens:** tell, be, carry, consult, not sight · **To what, where:** That, birds, way, maps, windy corners, Neverland · **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, birds), 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:pg16:5:2
# text = That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland; but even birds, carrying maps and consulting them at windy corners, could not have sighted it with these instructions.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Neverland	Neverland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
20	maps	map	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	consulting	consult	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	windy	windy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux	_	_
31	sighted	sight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	instructions	instruction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | That | birds |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient bird=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Wendy | the way |  |  |  | to the Neverland | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | birds *not said here* | maps |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=Theme |
| 4 | **consult** | gerund | birds *not said here* | maps *= map* |  | windy corners |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **sight** | could · perfect | birds *not said here* | Neverland |  |  |  | with this instructions | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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