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title: Lest he should be taken alive, Hook always carried about his person… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Lest he should be taken alive, Hook always carried about his person a dreadful drug, blended by himself of all the death-dealing rings that had come into his possession. Who acts: Hook, dealing rings. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, with its depen
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 67

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Lest he should be taken alive, Hook always carried about his person a dreadful drug, blended by himself of all the death-dealing rings that had come into his possession.

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**Who acts:** Hook, dealing rings · **What happens:** take, carry, blend, come, possess · **To what, where:** Hook, dreadful drug, possession

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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 (Hook, dealing rings), 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:pg16:14:67
# text = Lest he should be taken alive, Hook always carried about his person a dreadful drug, blended by himself of all the death-dealing rings that had come into his possession.
1	Lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
6	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	Hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
10	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	drug	drug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	blended	blend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	dealing	dealing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | should · passive |  | Hook |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **carry** | past | Hook | a dreadful drug |  |  |  | about Hook's person; always *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drug=Theme |
| 3 | **blend** | participle |  | a dreadful drug *not said here* |  |  |  | by Hook; of all dealing rings | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **come** | past · perfect | all dealing rings |  |  | Hook's possession |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into possession=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **possess** |  | Hook |  |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act 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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