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title: The house was quite beautiful, and no doubt Wendy was very cosy with… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The house was quite beautiful, and no doubt Wendy was very cosy within, though, of course, they could no longer see her. Who acts: house, doubt, babes. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 172

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The house was quite beautiful, and no doubt Wendy was very cosy within, though, of course, they could no longer see her.

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**Who acts:** house, doubt, babes · **What happens:** be, see · **To what, where:** third

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, doubt, babes), 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:pg16:7:172
# text = The house was quite beautiful, and no doubt Wendy was very cosy within, though, of course, they could no longer see her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	cosy	cosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
14	within	within	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	though	though	ADV	RB	_	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	25	advmod	_	_
19	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	no	no	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the house |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | no doubt |  |  |  |  | cosy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | could | babes *= babe* | third |  |  |  | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |

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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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