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title: Wendy insisted on their doing this, and it had to be a real rest eve… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Wendy insisted on their doing this, and it had to be a real rest even though the meal was make-believe. Who acts: Wendy, children, mark, meal. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 18

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Wendy insisted on their doing this, and it had to be a real rest even though the meal was make-believe.

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**Who acts:** Wendy, children, mark, meal · **What happens:** insist, do, have, be · **To what, where:** this, real rest

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wendy, children, mark, meal), 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:pg16:9:18
# text = Wendy insisted on their doing this, and it had to be a real rest even though the meal was make-believe.
1	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	insisted	insist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	though	though	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	make	make	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **insist** *speech: other* | past | Wendy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | children *= child* | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** | past | mark |  |  |  |  | though the meal | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | mark *not said here* | a real rest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | the meal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | believe *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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