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title: No one could ever look quite so merry as Peter, and the loveliest of… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: No one could ever look quite so merry as Peter, and the loveliest of gurgles was his laugh. Who acts: one. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 124

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No one could ever look quite so merry as Peter, and the loveliest of gurgles was his laugh.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** look, be · **To what, where:** loveliest laugh

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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 (one), 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:pg16:4:124
# text = No one could ever look quite so merry as Peter, and the loveliest of gurgles was his laugh.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	gurgles	gurgle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | could | no one |  |  |  | ever | merry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | past | no one *not said here* | Peter's loveliest laugh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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