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title: What did disturb her at times was that John remembered his parents v… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: What did disturb her at times was that John remembered his parents vaguely only, as people he had once known, while Michael was quite willing to believe that she was really his mother. Who acts: John, Michael, fireplace. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROU
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 42

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What did disturb her at times was that John remembered his parents vaguely only, as people he had once known, while Michael was quite willing to believe that she was really his mother.

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**Who acts:** John, Michael, fireplace · **What happens:** disturb, be, know, believe · **To what, where:** fireplace, John, mother · **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 (John, Michael, 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:pg16:8:42
# text = What did disturb her at times was that John remembered his parents vaguely only, as people he had once known, while Michael was quite willing to believe that she was really his mother.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	disturb	disturb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	vaguely	vaguely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	21	advmod	_	_
21	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	really	really	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disturb** | past · do-support | John *not said here* | fireplace |  |  | time |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus what=Experiencer she=Result |
| 2 | **is** | past | John |  |  |  |  | remember *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | past · perfect · passive |  | John |  |  |  | as people; once *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as people=Attribute |
| 4 | **is** | past | Michael |  |  |  |  | willing *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **believe** | to-infinitive | Michael *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is a** | past | fireplace | Michael's mother |  |  |  |  | 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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