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title: As time wore on did she think much about the beloved parents she had… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: As time wore on did she think much about the beloved parents she had left behind her? Who acts: fireplace. 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 39

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As time wore on did she think much about the beloved parents she had left behind her?

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**Who acts:** fireplace · **What happens:** wear, think, leave · **To what, where:** beloved parents

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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 (fireplace), 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:pg16:8:39
# text = As time wore on did she think much about the beloved parents she had left behind her?
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
3	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | fireplace |  |  |  |  | about the beloved parents | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about parent=Topic |
| 3 | **leave** | past · perfect | fireplace | the beloved parents *not said here* |  |  |  | behind Peter | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent parent=Theme behind she=Location |

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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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