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title: They were crowding round the house, as if curious to see what was to… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: They were crowding round the house, as if curious to see what was to take place there, but she did not notice this, nor that one or two of the smaller ones winked at her. Who acts: John, Mrs., one. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 185

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They were crowding round the house, as if curious to see what was to take place there, but she did not notice this, nor that one or two of the smaller ones winked at her.

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**Who acts:** John, Mrs., one · **What happens:** crowd, see, take, not notice, wink · **To what, where:** house, place, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, Mrs., one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg16:343`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg16:3:185
# text = They were crowding round the house, as if curious to see what was to take place there, but she did not notice this, nor that one or two of the smaller ones winked at her.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	crowding	crowd	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	round	round	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
17	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
25	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
27	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	36	cc	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nsubj	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	amod	_	_
35	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
36	winked	wink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crowd** | past · progressive | John |  |  | the house |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round house=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | John *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **take** | past |  | place |  | there |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **notice** | past · do-support | Mrs. | this |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 5 | **wink** | past | one of the smaller ones |  |  |  |  | at Mrs. | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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