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title: While his dogs were merely sweating because every time they tried to… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: While his dogs were merely sweating because every time they tried to pack the unhappy lad tight in one part he bulged out in another, Hook’s master mind had gone far beneath Slightly’s surface, probing not for effects but for causes; and his exultation showed that he had found them. Who acts: dogs, 
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 15

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While his dogs were merely sweating because every time they tried to pack the unhappy lad tight in one part he bulged out in another, Hook’s master mind had gone far beneath Slightly’s surface, probing not for effects but for causes; and his exultation showed that he had found them.

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**Who acts:** dogs, turn, master mind, exultation, Hook · **What happens:** sweat, try, pack, bulge out, go, probe · **To what, where:** time, unhappy lad, one part, another, surface, dogs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dogs, turn, master mind, exultation), 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:pg16:14:15
# text = While his dogs were merely sweating because every time they tried to pack the unhappy lad tight in one part he bulged out in another, Hook’s master mind had gone far beneath Slightly’s surface, probing not for effects but for causes; and his exultation showed that he had found them.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	sweating	sweat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
7	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	pack	pack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	tight	tight	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	bulged	bulge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
27	Hook	Hook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
33	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
34	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	Slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’s	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	probing	probe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	conj	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
43	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	causes	cause	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	exultation	exultation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
50	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
51	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
52	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
53	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	ccomp	_	_
55	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweat** | past · progressive | turn's dogs |  |  |  | time | merely *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **try** | past | dogs *= dog* | every time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pack** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | dogs *= dog* *not said here* | the unhappy lad |  | one part |  | tight *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lad=Theme in part=Destination |
| 4 | **bulge out** | past | turn | one part *not said here* |  | another |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location part=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | past · perfect | Hook's master mind |  |  | surface |  | far *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beneath surface=Location |
| 6 | **probe** | gerund | Hook's master mind *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for effects but causes | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for effect=Theme |
| 7 | **show** | past | turn's exultation |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **find** | past · perfect | turn | dogs *= dog* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 9 | **mind** |  | Hook |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **exult** |  | turn |  |  |  |  |  | nom exultation «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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