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title: Of course the Neverland had been make-believe in those days, but it… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course the Neverland had been make-believe in those days, but it was real now, and there were no night-lights, and it was getting darker every moment, and where was Nana? Who acts: Neverland, night lights. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, with its dependency tree
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# Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 87

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Of course the Neverland had been make-believe in those days, but it was real now, and there were no night-lights, and it was getting darker every moment, and where was Nana?

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**Who acts:** Neverland, night lights · **What happens:** have, be, believe, get · **To what, where:** make, Nana

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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 (Neverland, night lights), 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:pg16:5:87
# text = Of course the Neverland had been make-believe in those days, but it was real now, and there were no night-lights, and it was getting darker every moment, and where was Nana?
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Neverland	Neverland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
7	make	make	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	believe	believe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
24	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	parataxis	_	_
32	darker	dark	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	xcomp	_	_
33	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	39	advmod	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	Nana	Nana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of the Neverland | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | participle |  | make |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **believe** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past | Neverland |  |  |  | now | real *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** | past | no night lights |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **get** | past · progressive | Neverland |  |  |  | moment | dark *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **is a** | past |  | Nana |  |  |  |  | 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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