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title: The moon was riding in a cloudy heaven when Peter rose from his tree… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The moon was riding in a cloudy heaven when Peter rose from his tree, begirt with weapons and wearing little else, to set out upon his perilous quest. Who acts: moon, Peter. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 147

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The moon was riding in a cloudy heaven when Peter rose from his tree, begirt with weapons and wearing little else, to set out upon his perilous quest.

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**Who acts:** moon, Peter · **What happens:** ride, rise, wear, set out, quest · **To what, where:** cloudy heaven, tree, little

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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 (moon, Peter), 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:pg16:14:147
# text = The moon was riding in a cloudy heaven when Peter rose from his tree, begirt with weapons and wearing little else, to set out upon his perilous quest.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	begirt	begirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obj	_	_
22	else	else	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	perilous	perilous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past · progressive | the moon |  |  | a cloudy heaven |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rise** | past | Peter |  |  | Peter's tree and begirt with weapons |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **wear** | gerund | the moon *not said here* | little |  |  |  | else *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent little=Source |
| 4 | **set out** | to-infinitive | the moon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon Peter's perilous quest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **quest** |  | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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