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title: He did it with such an air, he was so frightfully _distingué_, that… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: He did it with such an air, he was so frightfully _distingué_, that she was too fascinated to cry out. Who acts: Hook. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 7

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He did it with such an air, he was so frightfully \_distingué\_, that she was too fascinated to cry out.

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**Who acts:** Hook · **What happens:** do, be, fascinate, cry out · **To what, where:** hat, Wendy

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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), 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:pg16:14:7
# text = He did it with such an air, he was so frightfully _distingué_, that she was too fascinated to cry out.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	7	det:predet	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	frightfully	frightfully	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	distingué	distingué	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	fascinated	fascinate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Hook | hat |  |  |  | with such air | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past | Hook |  |  |  |  | frightfully *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fascinate** | past · passive |  | Wendy |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **cry out** *speech: express* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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