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title: True he had flung Hook’s arm to the crocodile, but even this and the… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: True he had flung Hook’s arm to the crocodile, but even this and the increased insecurity of life to which it led, owing to the crocodile’s pertinacity, hardly account for a vindictiveness so relentless and malignant. Who acts: Peter, this, arm. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 46

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True he had flung Hook’s arm to the crocodile, but even this and the increased insecurity of life to which it led, owing to the crocodile’s pertinacity, hardly account for a vindictiveness so relentless and malignant.

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**Who acts:** Peter, this, arm · **What happens:** fling, increase, insecurity, lead, owe · **To what, where:** arm, crocodile, pertinacity

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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 (Peter, this, arm), 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:pg16:13:46
# text = True he had flung Hook’s arm to the crocodile, but even this and the increased insecurity of life to which it led, owing to the crocodile’s pertinacity, hardly account for a vindictiveness so relentless and malignant.
1	True	true	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	flung	fling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	Hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
14	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	insecurity	insecurity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	owing	owe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	pertinacity	pertinacity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	vindictiveness	vindictiveness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	relentless	relentless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advcl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	malignant	malignant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fling** | past · perfect | Peter | Hook's arm | the crocodile |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arm=Theme to crocodile=Destination |
| 2 | **increase** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **insecurity** |  | this |  |  |  |  | of life | tree rules |
| 4 | **lead** | past | arm |  |  |  |  | to the increased insecurity | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to which=Patient |
| 5 | **owe** | gerund | arm *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the crocodile's pertinacity and account *goal*; for a vindictiveness | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to pertinacity=Goal |

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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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