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title: Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anythin… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever. Who acts: Stars, lights. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 194

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Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever.

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**Who acts:** Stars, lights · **What happens:** be, not take, look on · **To what, where:** active part, anything

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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 (Stars, lights), 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:pg16:3:194
# text = Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever.
1	Stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Stars |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **take** | may | lights *= light* | a active part |  | anything |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in anything=Location |
| 3 | **look on** | must | lights *= light* |  |  |  |  |  | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for ever=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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