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# Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 10

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Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.

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**Who acts:** romantic mind, that, many, one more, sweet mocking mouth, Wendy · **What happens:** be, come, discover, have, not get, mind · **To what, where:** puzzling East, one kiss, kiss, hand corner

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (romantic mind, that, many, one more), 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:pg16:2:10
# text = Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	romantic	romantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	appos	_	_
11	within	within	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	puzzling	puzzling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	however	however	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	nsubj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	discover	discover	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
26	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	27	expl	_	_
27	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
28	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	29	advmod	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
34	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	mocking	mocking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
38	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
43	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
44	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
46	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
48	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
49	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	54	expl	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
51	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	conspicuous	conspicuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	conj	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
57	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	_
60	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Wendy's romantic mind |  |  |  |  | like the tiny boxes | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | that |  |  | the puzzling East |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from east=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **discover** | present | many |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **be** | present | one more |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past | Wendy's sweet mocking mouth | one kiss |  | kiss |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **get** | could | Wendy |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **is** | past | mouth |  |  | the hand corner; there |  | conspicuous, perfectly *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **mind** |  | Wendy |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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