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title: He might have forgotten it so completely that he said nothing about… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: He might have forgotten it so completely that he said nothing about it; and then when you went out you found the body; and, on the other hand, he might say a great deal about it, and yet you could not find the body. Who acts: sort, you. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOM
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 66

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He might have forgotten it so completely that he said nothing about it; and then when you went out you found the body; and, on the other hand, he might say a great deal about it, and yet you could not find the body.

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**Who acts:** sort, you · **What happens:** forget, say, go out, find, not find · **To what, where:** much, nothing, body, great deal, other hand · **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 (sort, you), 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:pg16:8:66
# text = He might have forgotten it so completely that he said nothing about it; and then when you went out you found the body; and, on the other hand, he might say a great deal about it, and yet you could not find the body.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	obj	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	about	about	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
43	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
44	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
45	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
47	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	parataxis	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | might · perfect | sort | much |  |  |  | completely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | sort | nothing |  |  |  | about much | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 3 | **go out** | past | you |  |  |  | then |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **find** | past | you | the body |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Topic |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | might | sort | a great deal |  | the other hand |  | about much | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent deal=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **find** | could | you | the body |  |  | yet |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Topic |

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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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