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title: Then Wendy saw the shadow on the floor, looking so draggled, and she… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Wendy saw the shadow on the floor, looking so draggled, and she was frightfully sorry for Peter. Who acts: Wendy. 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 56

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Then Wendy saw the shadow on the floor, looking so draggled, and she was frightfully sorry for Peter.

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**Who acts:** Wendy · **What happens:** see, look, draggl, be · **To what, where:** shadow, floor

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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 (Wendy), 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:pg16:4:56
# text = Then Wendy saw the shadow on the floor, looking so draggled, and she was frightfully sorry for Peter.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	draggled	draggl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	frightfully	frightfully	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Wendy | the shadow |  | the floor | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shadow=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | Wendy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **draggl** | participle | Wendy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | Wendy |  |  |  |  | for Peter; frightfully, sorry *property* | 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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