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title: These things scared her a little, and nobly anxious to do her duty,… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: These things scared her a little, and nobly anxious to do her duty, she tried to fix the old life in their minds by setting them examination papers on it, as like as possible to the ones she used to do at school. Who acts: things, fireplace. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. TH
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 43

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These things scared her a little, and nobly anxious to do her duty, she tried to fix the old life in their minds by setting them examination papers on it, as like as possible to the ones she used to do at school.

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**Who acts:** things, fireplace · **What happens:** scare, do, try, fix, set, use · **To what, where:** fireplace, duty, old life, minds, things, mind

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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 (things, 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:pg16:8:43
# text = These things scared her a little, and nobly anxious to do her duty, she tried to fix the old life in their minds by setting them examination papers on it, as like as possible to the ones she used to do at school.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	scared	scare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	nobly	nobly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
26	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	examination	examination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	papers	paper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	37	cc	_	_
35	like	like	ADP	IN	_	34	fixed	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	fixed	_	_
37	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	xcomp	_	_
45	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scare** | past | this things | fireplace |  |  |  | a little *obl:unmarked* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | this things *not said here* | fireplace's duty |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality |
| 3 | **try** | past | fireplace |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **fix** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | fireplace *not said here* | the old life |  | things's minds |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent life=Patient |
| 5 | **set** | gerund | fireplace *not said here* | things *= thing* |  | mind |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme paper=Destination |
| 6 | **use** | past | fireplace | the ones *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent one=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **do** | to-infinitive | fireplace *not said here* |  |  | school |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **mind** |  | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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