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title: She saw recognition come into his eyes as he was about to pass them… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: She saw recognition come into his eyes as he was about to pass them the time of day and go on; once even she had to call him by name. Who acts: Wendy, recognition. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 49

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She saw recognition come into his eyes as he was about to pass them the time of day and go on; once even she had to call him by name.

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**Who acts:** Wendy, recognition · **What happens:** see, come, be, pass, go on, have · **To what, where:** eyes, recognition · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wendy, recognition), 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:pg16:5:49
# text = She saw recognition come into his eyes as he was about to pass them the time of day and go on; once even she had to call him by name.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	recognition	recognition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
21	on	on	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	26	advmod	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Wendy |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | present | recognition |  |  | recognition's eyes |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into eye=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | recognition |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass** | to-infinitive | recognition *not said here* | eyes *= eye* |  |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory |
| 5 | **go on** | infinitive | recognition *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | past | Wendy |  |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **call** | to-infinitive | Wendy *not said here* |  | recognition |  |  | by name | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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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