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title: Wendy could no longer see to thread her needle, and when she looked… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Wendy could no longer see to thread her needle, and when she looked up, the lagoon that had always hitherto been such a laughing place seemed formidable and unfriendly. Who acts: Wendy, lagoon, laughing place. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, with its de
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 25

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Wendy could no longer see to thread her needle, and when she looked up, the lagoon that had always hitherto been such a laughing place seemed formidable and unfriendly.

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**Who acts:** Wendy, lagoon, laughing place · **What happens:** see, look up, have, laugh, be, seem · **To what, where:** thread, lagoon, laughing place

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wendy, lagoon, laughing place), 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:pg16:9:25
# text = Wendy could no longer see to thread her needle, and when she looked up, the lagoon that had always hitherto been such a laughing place seemed formidable and unfriendly.
1	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	no	no	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	_
22	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
24	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	27	det:predet	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
27	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
29	formidable	formidable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	unfriendly	unfriendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | could | Wendy | thread |  |  |  | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thread=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look up** | past | Wendy | the lagoon |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **have** | past | the lagoon |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | participle |  | such laughing place |  |  |  | hitherto *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **seem** | past | such laughing place |  |  |  |  | formidable *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=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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