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title: The crocodile passed him, but not another living thing, not a sound,… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The crocodile passed him, but not another living thing, not a sound, not a movement; and yet he knew well that sudden death might be at the next tree, or stalking him from behind. Who acts: crocodile, silence, sudden death. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN F
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 158

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The crocodile passed him, but not another living thing, not a sound, not a movement; and yet he knew well that sudden death might be at the next tree, or stalking him from behind.

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**Who acts:** crocodile, silence, sudden death · **What happens:** pass, know, be, stalk · **To what, where:** silence, next tree · **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 (crocodile, silence, sudden death), 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:pg16:14:158
# text = The crocodile passed him, but not another living thing, not a sound, not a movement; and yet he knew well that sudden death might be at the next tree, or stalking him from behind.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
26	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
28	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	stalking	stalk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | the crocodile | silence |  |  |  | another living thing  a sound and a movement *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Trajectory |
| 2 | **know** | past | silence |  |  |  | yet | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | might | sudden death |  |  | the next tree |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stalk** | gerund | silence *not said here* | silence |  |  |  |  | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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