--- title: She clung to him; she refused to go without him; but with a “Good-by… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: She clung to him; she refused to go without him; but with a “Good-bye, Wendy,” he pushed her from the rock; and in a few minutes she was borne out of his sight. Who acts: Wendy, Good Wendy, Michael. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/9/291/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Peter Pan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/) / [Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/9/) / 291 # Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 291 She clung to him; she refused to go without him; but with a “Good-bye, Wendy,” he pushed her from the rock; and in a few minutes she was borne out of his sight. **Who acts:** Wendy, Good Wendy, Michael · **What happens:** cling, refuse, not go, push, bear out, sight · **To what, where:** Michael, feeling, rock, Wendy, sight 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, Good Wendy, Michael), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg16:9:291 # text = She clung to him; she refused to go without him; but with a “Good-bye, Wendy,” he pushed her from the rock; and in a few minutes she was borne out of his sight. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 clung cling VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 refused refuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 without without ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 14 with with SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 16 “ " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 bye bye INTJ UH _ 17 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 Wendy Wendy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ” " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 pushed push VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 borne bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 39 out out ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cling** | past | Wendy | | Michael | | | | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to he=Co-Theme | | 2 | **refuse** | past | Wendy | | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **not** **go** | to-infinitive | Wendy *not said here* | | | | | without Michael | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **push** | past | Good Wendy | feeling | | the rock | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme from rock=Trajectory | | 5 | **bear out** | past · passive | | Wendy | | Michael's sight | minute | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary sight=Patient | | 6 | **sight** | | Michael | | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 290](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/9/290/) - next →: [sentence 292](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/9/292/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/9/)