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title: As you look at Wendy, you may see her hair becoming white, and her f… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: As you look at Wendy, you may see her hair becoming white, and her figure little again, for all this happened long ago. Who acts: you, hair, this, Jane. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 258

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As you look at Wendy, you may see her hair becoming white, and her figure little again, for all this happened long ago.

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**Who acts:** you, hair, this, Jane · **What happens:** look, see, become, happen, figure · **To what, where:** hair

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, hair, this, Jane), 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:pg16:18:258
# text = As you look at Wendy, you may see her hair becoming white, and her figure little again, for all this happened long ago.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
24	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
25	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
26	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | you |  |  |  |  | at Wendy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wendy=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | may | you | Jane's hair |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hair=Stimulus |
| 3 | **become** | gerund | Jane's hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  | white *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **happen** | past | this |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **figure** |  | Jane |  |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication 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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