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title: DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES? — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES? Who acts: YOU. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, [peter and Wendy], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, \[peter and Wendy\], sentence 18

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DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?

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**Who acts:** YOU · **What happens:** believe

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, \[peter and Wendy\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg16:1:18
# text = DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?
1	DO	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	YOU	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	BELIEVE	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	IN	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	FAIRIES	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | present · do-support | YOU |  |  |  |  | in FAIRIES | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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