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title: The jealous fairy had now cast off all disguise of friendship, and w… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The jealous fairy had now cast off all disguise of friendship, and was darting at her victim from every direction, pinching savagely each time she touched. Who acts: distinct. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 197

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The jealous fairy had now cast off all disguise of friendship, and was darting at her victim from every direction, pinching savagely each time she touched.

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**Who acts:** distinct · **What happens:** cast off, dart, pinch, touch · **To what, where:** jealous fairy, victim, time

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (distinct), 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:pg16:6:197
# text = The jealous fairy had now cast off all disguise of friendship, and was darting at her victim from every direction, pinching savagely each time she touched.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	disguise	disguise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	darting	dart	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	victim	victim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	pinching	pinch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
24	savagely	savagely	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cast off** | past · perfect · passive |  | the jealous fairy |  |  | now | off all disguise of friendship | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary disguise=Product |
| 2 | **dart** | past · progressive |  |  |  | distinct's victim |  | from every direction | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at victim=Trajectory |
| 3 | **pinch** | gerund |  |  |  |  | time | savagely *property* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **touch** | past | distinct | each time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Co-Theme |

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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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