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title: To his disordered brain it seemed then that the irritating quality i… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: To his disordered brain it seemed then that the irritating quality in Peter’s face and figure visibly increased, and he rattled the door and flung himself against it. Who acts: it, Hook. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, with its dependency tree and
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 62

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To his disordered brain it seemed then that the irritating quality in Peter’s face and figure visibly increased, and he rattled the door and flung himself against it.

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**Who acts:** it, Hook · **What happens:** disorder, seem, figure, increase, rattle, fling · **To what, where:** irritating quality, door, Hook, obstacle

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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 (it, Hook), 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:pg16:14:62
# text = To his disordered brain it seemed then that the irritating quality in Peter’s face and figure visibly increased, and he rattled the door and flung himself against it.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	disordered	disorder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	irritating	irritating	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	figure	figure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	visibly	visibly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	rattled	rattle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
28	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obj	_	_
29	against	against	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disorder** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **seem** | past | it | the irritating quality in Peter's face |  |  | then | to Hook's disordered brain | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **figure** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **increase** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | visibly *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **rattle** | past | Hook | the door |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent door=Theme |
| 6 | **fling** | past | Hook *not said here* | Hook |  | obstacle |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme against it=Destination |

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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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