---
title: She liked his tears so much that she put out her beautiful finger an… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: She liked his tears so much that she put out her beautiful finger and let them run over it. Who acts: head, tears. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/14/129/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Peter Pan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/) / [Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/14/) / 129

# Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 129

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She liked his tears so much that she put out her beautiful finger and let them run over it.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** head, tears · **What happens:** like, put out, let, run · **To what, where:** tears, beautiful finger, finger

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, tears), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg16:14:129
# text = She liked his tears so much that she put out her beautiful finger and let them run over it.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | past | head | Tink's tears |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tear=Theme |
| 2 | **put out** | past | head | head's beautiful finger |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent finger=Goal |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | head *not said here* | tears *= tear* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **run** | infinitive | tears *= tear* *not said here* |  |  | finger |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/14/128/)
- next →: [sentence 130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/14/130/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/14/)