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title: On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their c… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. Who acts: children. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 70

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On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** shore, beach · **To what, where:** magic, coracles

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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 (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:pg16:2:70
# text = On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	shores	shore	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	_
11	beaching	beach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	coracles	coracle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shore** | present |  |  |  | this magic |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **beach** | present · progressive | children at play | children's coracles |  |  | ever |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coracle=Theme |

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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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