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title: It was saying, “To die will be an awfully big adventure.” — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: It was saying, “To die will be an awfully big adventure.” Who acts: tremour. 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 298

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It was saying, “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”

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**Who acts:** tremour · **What happens:** say, die, be · **To what, where:** big adventure · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (tremour), 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:pg16:9:298
# text = It was saying, “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	To	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	awfully	awfully	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · progressive | tremour |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **die** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | future |  | a big adventure |  |  |  |  | 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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