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title: He stood silent at the foot of the tree looking across the chamber a… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: He stood silent at the foot of the tree looking across the chamber at his enemy. Who acts: Peter. 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.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 51

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He stood silent at the foot of the tree looking across the chamber at his enemy.

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**Who acts:** Peter · **What happens:** stand, look · **To what, where:** foot

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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 (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:pg16:14:51
# text = He stood silent at the foot of the tree looking across the chamber at his enemy.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	across	across	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Peter |  |  | the foot of the tree |  | silent *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | Peter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Peter's enemy; across the chamber | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent across chamber=Theme |

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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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