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title: Sufficient of this Hook guessed to persuade him that Peter at last l… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Sufficient of this Hook guessed to persuade him that Peter at last lay at his mercy, but no word of the dark design that now formed in the subterranean caverns of his mind crossed his lips; he merely signed that the captives were to be conveyed to the ship, and that he would be alone. Who acts: word
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 19

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Sufficient of this Hook guessed to persuade him that Peter at last lay at his mercy, but no word of the dark design that now formed in the subterranean caverns of his mind crossed his lips; he merely signed that the captives were to be conveyed to the ship, and that he would be alone.

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**Who acts:** word, man · **What happens:** guess, persuade, form, cross, sign, convey · **To what, where:** man, last lay, dark design, subterranean caverns, lips, captives

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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 (word, man), 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:pg16:14:19
# text = Sufficient of this Hook guessed to persuade him that Peter at last lay at his mercy, but no word of the dark design that now formed in the subterranean caverns of his mind crossed his lips; he merely signed that the captives were to be conveyed to the ship, and that he would be alone.
1	Sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	advcl	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	Hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	guessed	guess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	persuade	persuade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	lay	lay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	design	design	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	subterranean	subterranean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	caverns	cavern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	signed	sign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	parataxis	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	captives	captive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
47	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	aux:pass	_	_
48	conveyed	convey	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	advcl	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
54	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
55	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
56	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
57	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	cop	_	_
58	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guess** | past | no word of the dark design *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of this Hook | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **persuade** | to-infinitive | no word of the dark design *not said here* | man |  | last lay at man's mercy |  | Peter *obl* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 3 | **form** | participle · passive |  | the dark design |  | the subterranean caverns of man's mind | now |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **cross** | past | no word of the dark design | man's lips |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient |
| 5 | **sign** | past | man |  |  |  |  | merely *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **convey** | past · passive |  | the captives | the ship |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to ship=Recipient |
| 7 | **is** | would | man |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **word** |  |  | the dark design |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **mind** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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