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title: Here dreaming, though wide-awake, of the exquisite tortures to which… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Here dreaming, though wide-awake, of the exquisite tortures to which they were to put him at break of day, those confiding savages were found by the treacherous Hook. Who acts: treacherous Hook, Piccaninnies. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, with 
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 17

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Here dreaming, though wide-awake, of the exquisite tortures to which they were to put him at break of day, those confiding savages were found by the treacherous Hook.

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**Who acts:** treacherous Hook, Piccaninnies · **What happens:** dream, put, confide, find, break · **To what, where:** Hook, break, confiding savages, day

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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 (treacherous Hook, Piccaninnies), 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:pg16:13:17
# text = Here dreaming, though wide-awake, of the exquisite tortures to which they were to put him at break of day, those confiding savages were found by the treacherous Hook.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tortures	torture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
25	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
26	confiding	confide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
27	savages	savage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	treacherous	treacherous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dream** | gerund | the treacherous Hook *not said here* |  |  | here |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **put** | past | Piccaninnies *= piccaninny* | Hook |  | break of day |  | to the exquisite tortures | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme at break=Destination |
| 3 | **confide** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **find** | past · passive | the treacherous Hook | that confiding savages |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 5 | **break** |  |  | day |  |  |  |  | nom break «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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