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title: They found only one hillock with a stream at its base, so that Hook… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: They found only one hillock with a stream at its base, so that Hook had no choice; here he must establish himself and wait for just before the dawn. Who acts: Piccaninnies, Hook. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 15

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They found only one hillock with a stream at its base, so that Hook had no choice; here he must establish himself and wait for just before the dawn.

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**Who acts:** Piccaninnies, Hook · **What happens:** find, have, establish, wait · **To what, where:** one hillock, choice, Hook

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Piccaninnies, Hook), 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:pg16:13:15
# text = They found only one hillock with a stream at its base, so that Hook had no choice; here he must establish himself and wait for just before the dawn.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	hillock	hillock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	16	mark	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	Hook	Hook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	establish	establish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
24	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	just	just	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	before	before	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Piccaninnies *= piccaninny* | one hillock |  |  |  | with a stream at stream's base | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hillock=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | past | Hook | no choice |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient |
| 3 | **establish** | must | Hook | Hook |  | here |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 4 | **wait** | infinitive | Hook *not said here* |  |  |  | dawn |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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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