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title: Of course Wendy was very elated over Peter’s cleverness; but she kne… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course Wendy was very elated over Peter’s cleverness; but she knew that he would be elated also and very likely crow and thus betray himself, so at once her hand went out to cover his mouth. Who acts: Wendy. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, with its d
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 83

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Of course Wendy was very elated over Peter’s cleverness; but she knew that he would be elated also and very likely crow and thus betray himself, so at once her hand went out to cover his mouth.

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**Who acts:** Wendy · **What happens:** elate, know, betray, go out, cover · **To what, where:** cleverness, Peter, hand, mouth

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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), 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:pg16:9:83
# text = Of course Wendy was very elated over Peter’s cleverness; but she knew that he would be elated also and very likely crow and thus betray himself, so at once her hand went out to cover his mouth.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	elated	elate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	cleverness	cleverness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	elated	elate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	betray	betray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
28	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
35	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
36	out	out	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **elate** | past · passive |  |  |  | Peter's cleverness |  | of Wendy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 2 | **know** | past | Wendy |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **elate** | would · passive |  | Peter |  |  |  | likely crow *obl* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **betray** | infinitive |  | Peter |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **go out** | past | Wendy *not said here* |  |  | Wendy's hand |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **cover** | to-infinitive | Wendy *not said here* | Peter's mouth |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mouth=Destination |

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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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