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title: Of course she could not answer yet, being still in a frightful faint… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course she could not answer yet, being still in a frightful faint; but from overhead came a wailing note. Who acts: lady, wailing note. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 74

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Of course she could not answer yet, being still in a frightful faint; but from overhead came a wailing note.

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**Who acts:** lady, wailing note · **What happens:** not answer, be, come, wail · **To what, where:** frightful faint

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, wailing note), 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:pg16:937`): 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:pg16:7:74
# text = Of course she could not answer yet, being still in a frightful faint; but from overhead came a wailing note.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	6	advmod	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	frightful	frightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	faint	faint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	advcl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	overhead	overhead	ADV	RB	_	19	obl	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	wailing	wail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	amod	_	_
22	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | could | lady |  |  |  | yet |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | lady *not said here* |  |  | a frightful faint | still |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | a wailing note |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from overhead=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **wail** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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