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title: “All I remember about my mother,” Nibs told them, “is that she often… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “All I remember about my mother,” Nibs told them, “is that she often said to my father, ‘Oh, how I wish I had a cheque-book of my own!’ Who acts: Nibs, tone. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 77

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“All I remember about my mother,” Nibs told them, “is that she often said to my father, ‘Oh, how I wish I had a cheque-book of my own!’

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**Who acts:** Nibs, tone · **What happens:** remember, tell, be, wish, have · **To what, where:** mothers, cheque book · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nibs, tone), 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:pg16:6:77
# text = “All I remember about my mother,” Nibs told them, “is that she often said to my father, ‘Oh, how I wish I had a cheque-book of my own!’
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
10	Nibs	nib	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	often	often	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	29	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	cheque	cheque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** *in a quote* | present | all Nibs *= nib* |  |  |  |  | about my mother | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | all Nibs |  | mothers *= mother* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 3 | **be** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | tone |  |  |  |  | often, say *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | all Nibs *= nib* |  |  |  |  | to my father | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | past | all Nibs *= nib* | a cheque book of my own |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient |

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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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