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title: Here Tink, who was in her bedroom, eavesdropping, squeaked out somet… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Here Tink, who was in her bedroom, eavesdropping, squeaked out something impudent. Who acts: Tink. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 127

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Here Tink, who was in her bedroom, eavesdropping, squeaked out something impudent.

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**Who acts:** Tink · **What happens:** be, eavesdrop, squeak out · **To what, where:** bedroom, something

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tink), 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:pg16:11:127
# text = Here Tink, who was in her bedroom, eavesdropping, squeaked out something impudent.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	Tink	Tink	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	eavesdropping	eavesdrop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	squeaked	squeak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obj	_	_
15	impudent	impudent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Tink |  |  | Tink's bedroom |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eavesdrop** | gerund | Tink *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **squeak out** | participle |  | something |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent something=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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