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title: As his eyes became accustomed to the dim light various objects in th… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: As his eyes became accustomed to the dim light various objects in the home under the trees took shape; but the only one on which his greedy gaze rested, long sought for and found at last, was the great bed. Who acts: trees, only one, Hook. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO 
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 38

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As his eyes became accustomed to the dim light various objects in the home under the trees took shape; but the only one on which his greedy gaze rested, long sought for and found at last, was the great bed.

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**Who acts:** trees, only one, Hook · **What happens:** accustom, take, rest, seek, find, be · **To what, where:** eyes, shape, greedy gaze, last, great bed

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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 (trees, only one, Hook), 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:pg16:14:38
# text = As his eyes became accustomed to the dim light various objects in the home under the trees took shape; but the only one on which his greedy gaze rested, long sought for and found at last, was the great bed.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	obl	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	gaze	gaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
30	rested	rest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
33	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	conj	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accustom** | past · passive |  | Hook's eyes |  |  |  | to the dim light and various objects in the home | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past | the trees | shape |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme |
| 3 | **rest** | participle |  | Hook's greedy gaze *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **seek** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **find** | participle |  |  |  | last |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | past | the only one | the great bed |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **gaze** |  | Hook |  |  |  |  |  | nom gaze «act 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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