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title: He came back, and there was a greedy look in his eyes now which ough… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: He came back, and there was a greedy look in his eyes now which ought to have alarmed her, but did not. Who acts: Peter, greedy look. 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 198

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He came back, and there was a greedy look in his eyes now which ought to have alarmed her, but did not.

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**Who acts:** Peter, greedy look · **What happens:** come back, be, alarm, not do · **To what, where:** eyes

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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 (Peter, greedy look), 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:pg16:4:198
# text = He came back, and there was a greedy look in his eyes now which ought to have alarmed her, but did not.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	alarmed	alarm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | past | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | a greedy look in Peter's eyes |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **alarm** | ought · perfect · passive | a greedy look in Peter's eyes *not said here* | Peter's eyes |  |  | now |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer she=Result |
| 4 | **not** **do** | past | Peter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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