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title: To his amazement Hook signed him to beat the tom-tom, and slowly the… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: To his amazement Hook signed him to beat the tom-tom, and slowly there came to Smee an understanding of the dreadful wickedness of the order. Who acts: Hook, Smee. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 64

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To his amazement Hook signed him to beat the tom-tom, and slowly there came to Smee an understanding of the dreadful wickedness of the order.

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**Who acts:** Hook, Smee · **What happens:** sign, beat, come, amaze, understand · **To what, where:** Smee, amazement, tom tom, understanding, dreadful wickedness

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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 (Hook, Smee), 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:pg16:13:64
# text = To his amazement Hook signed him to beat the tom-tom, and slowly there came to Smee an understanding of the dreadful wickedness of the order.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	amazement	amazement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Hook	Hook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	signed	sign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	tom	tom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	tom	tom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Smee	Smee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sign** | past | Hook | Smee | Smee's amazement |  |  |  | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to amazement=Recipient |
| 2 | **beat** | to-infinitive | Hook *not said here* | the tom tom |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tom=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | Hook *not said here* | a understanding of the dreadful wickedness of the order |  | Smee; there |  | slowly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to smee=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **amaze** |  | Smee |  |  |  |  |  | nom amazement «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **understand** |  |  | the dreadful wickedness of the order |  |  |  |  | nom understanding «cognition 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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