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description: Wendy, of course, had stood by taking no part in the fight, though watching Peter with glistening eyes; but now that all was over she became prominent again. Who acts: all. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 193

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Wendy, of course, had stood by taking no part in the fight, though watching Peter with glistening eyes; but now that all was over she became prominent again.

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**Who acts:** all · **What happens:** stand, take, watch, glisten, be · **To what, where:** Wendy, part, fight, Peter

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all), 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:pg16:16:193
# text = Wendy, of course, had stood by taking no part in the fight, though watching Peter with glistening eyes; but now that all was over she became prominent again.
1	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
18	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	glistening	glisten	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
24	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
31	prominent	prominent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
32	again	again	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past · perfect · passive |  | Wendy |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **take** | gerund |  | no part |  | the fight |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in fight=Location |
| 3 | **watch** | gerund |  | Peter |  |  |  | with glistening eyes | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peter=Theme |
| 4 | **glisten** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  | now; again | become, prominent *property* | tree rules |

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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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