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title: “Wendy, look at the turtles burying their eggs in the sand.” — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Wendy, look at the turtles burying their eggs in the sand.” Who acts: Wendy, turtles. 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 65

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“Wendy, look at the turtles burying their eggs in the sand.”

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**Who acts:** Wendy, turtles · **What happens:** look, bury · **To what, where:** eggs, sand

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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, turtles), 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:pg16:5:65
# text = “Wendy, look at the turtles burying their eggs in the sand.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	turtles	turtle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	burying	bury	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | Wendy |  |  |  |  | at the turtles | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at turtle=Theme |
| 2 | **bury** *in a quote* | gerund | the turtles *not said here* | turtles's eggs |  | the sand |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in sand=Destination |

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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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