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title: “Little less noise there,” Peter called out, determined that she sho… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Little less noise there,” Peter called out, determined that she should have fair play, however beastly a story it might be in his opinion. Who acts: noise Peter, Peter, story. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 18

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“Little less noise there,” Peter called out, determined that she should have fair play, however beastly a story it might be in his opinion.

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**Who acts:** noise Peter, Peter, story · **What happens:** call out, determine, have, be · **To what, where:** noise Peter, fair play, opinion

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise Peter, Peter, story), 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:pg16:12:18
# text = “Little less noise there,” Peter called out, determined that she should have fair play, however beastly a story it might be in his opinion.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
17	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
20	however	however	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	beastly	beastly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle |  | noise Peter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **determine** | past | noise Peter |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | should | Peter | fair play |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | might | a story |  |  | John's opinion |  | beastly *property* | tree rules |

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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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