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title: I suppose it was all especially entrancing to Wendy, because those r… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: I suppose it was all especially entrancing to Wendy, because those rampagious boys of hers gave her so much to do. Who acts: I, appearance, rampagious boys. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 26

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I suppose it was all especially entrancing to Wendy, because those rampagious boys of hers gave her so much to do.

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**Who acts:** I, appearance, rampagious boys · **What happens:** suppose, entrance, give, do · **To what, where:** Wendy, Tink · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, appearance, rampagious boys), 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:pg16:8:26
# text = I suppose it was all especially entrancing to Wendy, because those rampagious boys of hers gave her so much to do.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	suppose	suppose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	entrancing	entrance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	rampagious	rampagious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	much	much	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **entrance** | past · progressive | appearance |  | Wendy |  |  | all, especially *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **give** | past | that rampagious boys of Tink |  | Tink |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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