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title: The stave was still there, and on it Starkey had hung his hat, a dee… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The stave was still there, and on it Starkey had hung his hat, a deep tarpaulin, watertight, with a broad brim. Who acts: stave, Starkey. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 36

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The stave was still there, and on it Starkey had hung his hat, a deep tarpaulin, watertight, with a broad brim.

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**Who acts:** stave, Starkey · **What happens:** be, hang · **To what, where:** hat, stave

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stave, Starkey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg16:1375`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg16:10:36
# text = The stave was still there, and on it Starkey had hung his hat, a deep tarpaulin, watertight, with a broad brim.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stave	stave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
10	Starkey	Starkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	tarpaulin	tarpaulin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	watertight	watertight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	brim	brim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	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 stave |  |  |  | still | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hang** | past · perfect | Starkey | Starkey's hat |  | stave |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hat=Theme on it=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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