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title: Perhaps it is tell-tale to divulge that for a moment Hook entranced… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Perhaps it is tell-tale to divulge that for a moment Hook entranced her, and we tell on her only because her slip led to strange results. Who acts: hat, moment Hook, we, slip. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 9

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Perhaps it is tell-tale to divulge that for a moment Hook entranced her, and we tell on her only because her slip led to strange results.

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**Who acts:** hat, moment Hook, we, slip, Wendy · **What happens:** be, divulge, entrance, tell, lead, slip · **To what, where:** tell tale, Wendy · **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 (hat, moment Hook, we, slip), 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:pg16:14:9
# text = Perhaps it is tell-tale to divulge that for a moment Hook entranced her, and we tell on her only because her slip led to strange results.
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	divulge	divulge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	obj	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	entranced	entrance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	slip	slip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | hat | tell tale |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **divulge** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  | tell tale |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
| 3 | **entrance** | past | a moment Hook | Wendy |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | we |  |  |  |  | on Wendy | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lead** | past | Wendy's slip |  |  |  |  | to strange results | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to result=Patient |
| 6 | **slip** |  | Wendy |  |  |  |  |  | nom slip «act intransitive»: 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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