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title: He had had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know;… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: He had had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred. Who acts: Nana, other children. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 166

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He had had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred.

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**Who acts:** Nana, other children · **What happens:** have, not know, look, bar · **To what, where:** ecstasies, Nana, one joy

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nana, other children), 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:pg16:17:166
# text = He had had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	ecstasies	ecstasy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	innumerable	innumerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
27	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
29	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	31	advmod	_	_
31	barred	bar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past · perfect | Nana | ecstasies |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ecstasy=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **know** | can | other children |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **look** | past · progressive | Nana |  |  |  |  | at the one joy; through the window | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=Theme |
| 4 | **bar** | must · passive |  | Nana |  | the one joy | ever |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from which=Eventuality |

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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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