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title: They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are.” Who acts: fairies, mauve ones, boys, blue ones. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, w
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 61

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They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are.”

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**Who acts:** fairies, mauve ones, boys, blue ones, little sillies · **What happens:** live, be, not be · **To what, where:** nests, boys, girls, little sillies

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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 (fairies, mauve ones, boys, blue ones), 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:pg16:18:61
# text = They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are.”
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	mauve	mauve	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	just	just	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	sillies	silly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	parataxis	_	_
36	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	35	ccomp	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | fairies *= fairy* |  |  | nests on the tops of trees |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nest=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the mauve ones | boys and the white ones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | boys and the white ones | girls |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the blue ones | little sillies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is** | present | little sillies |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | present | little sillies *not said here* | little sillies |  |  |  |  | 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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