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title: While she sewed they played around her; such a group of happy faces… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: While she sewed they played around her; such a group of happy faces and dancing limbs lit up by that romantic fire. Who acts: telling, things. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 66

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While she sewed they played around her; such a group of happy faces and dancing limbs lit up by that romantic fire.

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**Who acts:** telling, things · **What happens:** sew, play, lit up · **To what, where:** group, happy faces

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (telling, things), 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:pg16:11:66
# text = While she sewed they played around her; such a group of happy faces and dancing limbs lit up by that romantic fire.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sewed	sew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	around	around	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	11	det:predet	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
22	romantic	romantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sew** | past | telling | such group of happy faces and dancing limbs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | past | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | around telling | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lit up** | participle |  | happy faces and dancing limbs *not said here* |  |  |  | by that romantic fire | 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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