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title: Slightly, white to the gills, knew that Hook had surprised his secre… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Slightly, white to the gills, knew that Hook had surprised his secret, which was this, that no boy so blown out could use a tree wherein an average man need stick. Who acts: gills, Hook, secret, boy. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, with its depend
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 16

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Slightly, white to the gills, knew that Hook had surprised his secret, which was this, that no boy so blown out could use a tree wherein an average man need stick.

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**Who acts:** gills, Hook, secret, boy, average man · **What happens:** know, surprise, be, blow out, use, need · **To what, where:** this, boy, tree, stick · **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 (gills, Hook, secret, boy), 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:pg16:14:16
# text = Slightly, white to the gills, knew that Hook had surprised his secret, which was this, that no boy so blown out could use a tree wherein an average man need stick.
1	Slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gills	gill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	Hook	Hook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	surprised	surprise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
35	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | the gills *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **surprise** | past · perfect | Hook |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Hook's secret | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **blow out** | participle |  | no boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **use** | could | no boy | a tree |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
| 6 | **need** | present | a average man | stick |  |  |  | wherein *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stick=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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