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title: “You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” Who acts: You, first baby, laugh, pieces. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, 
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# Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 108

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“You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”

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**Who acts:** You, first baby, laugh, pieces, that, baby · **What happens:** see, laugh, break, go, skip, be · **To what, where:** Wendy, thousand pieces, beginning

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, first baby, laugh, pieces), 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:pg16:4:108
# text = “You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	advmod	_	_
28	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
29	skipping	skip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	xcomp	_	_
30	about	about	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present | You | Wendy |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wendy=Stimulus |
| 2 | **laugh** *in a quote* | past | the first baby |  |  |  | time |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **break** *in a quote* | past | baby's laugh |  |  |  |  | into thousand pieces *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | past | pieces *= piece* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **skip** *in a quote* | gerund | pieces *= piece* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | that | the beginning |  |  |  | of fairies | tree rules |
| 7 | **laugh** *in a quote* |  | baby |  |  |  |  |  | nom laugh «communication intransitive»: 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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