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title: The red in his eye had caught sight of Peter’s medicine standing on… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The red in his eye had caught sight of Peter’s medicine standing on a ledge within easy reach. Who acts: medicine, 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 65

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The red in his eye had caught sight of Peter’s medicine standing on a ledge within easy reach.

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**Who acts:** medicine, Peter · **What happens:** catch, stand, sight, medicine · **To what, where:** red, ledge, medicine

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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 (medicine, 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:pg16:14:65
# text = The red in his eye had caught sight of Peter’s medicine standing on a ledge within easy reach.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ledge	ledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	within	within	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past · perfect · passive |  | the red |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary sight=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund | Peter's medicine *not said here* |  |  | a ledge |  | within easy reach | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ledge=Location |
| 3 | **sight** |  |  | Peter's medicine |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **medicine** |  | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: 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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