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title: For several suns these were the most novel of all adventures to him;… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: For several suns these were the most novel of all adventures to him; and John and Michael had to pretend to be delighted also; otherwise he would have treated them severely. Who acts: these, John, novel. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, with its depe
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 64

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For several suns these were the most novel of all adventures to him; and John and Michael had to pretend to be delighted also; otherwise he would have treated them severely.

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**Who acts:** these, John, novel · **What happens:** be, have, pretend, treat · **To what, where:** novel, sort

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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 (these, John, novel), 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:pg16:8:64
# text = For several suns these were the most novel of all adventures to him; and John and Michael had to pretend to be delighted also; otherwise he would have treated them severely.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	suns	sun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
4	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
8	novel	novel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
25	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
27	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux	_	_
31	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	severely	severely	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | these | the novel |  |  |  | for several suns; of all adventures to sort | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | John and Michael |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pretend** | to-infinitive | John and Michael *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | John and Michael *not said here* |  |  |  |  | delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **treat** | would · perfect · passive | the novel *not said here* | sort |  |  |  | otherwise, severely *property* | 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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