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title: “Years have rolled by, and who is this elegant lady of uncertain age… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Years have rolled by, and who is this elegant lady of uncertain age alighting at London Station?” Who acts: Years, uncertain age. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 60

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“Years have rolled by, and who is this elegant lady of uncertain age alighting at London Station?”

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**Who acts:** Years, uncertain age · **What happens:** roll, be, alight · **To what, where:** elegant lady, London Station

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Years, uncertain age), 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:pg16:12:60
# text = “Years have rolled by, and who is this elegant lady of uncertain age alighting at London Station?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	elegant	elegant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	uncertain	uncertain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	alighting	alight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Station	Station	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Years |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | this elegant lady |  |  | of uncertain age |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **alight** *in a quote* | gerund | uncertain age *not said here* |  |  | London Station |  |  | 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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