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title: Ever and anon the light from his cigar gave a touch of colour to his… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Ever and anon the light from his cigar gave a touch of colour to his face. Who acts: anon. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 70

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Ever and anon the light from his cigar gave a touch of colour to his face.

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**Who acts:** anon · **What happens:** give, touch · **To what, where:** touch, face, colour

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anon), 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:pg16:15:70
# text = Ever and anon the light from his cigar gave a touch of colour to his face.
1	Ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	anon	anon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	cigar	cigar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	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	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | anon | a touch of colour | light's face |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent touch=Theme to face=Recipient |
| 2 | **touch** |  |  | colour |  |  |  |  | nom touch «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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