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title: There was not a porthole on the grimy glass of which you might not h… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: There was not a porthole on the grimy glass of which you might not have written with your finger “Dirty pig”; and she had already written it on several. Who acts: porthole, you. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 110

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There was not a porthole on the grimy glass of which you might not have written with your finger “Dirty pig”; and she had already written it on several.

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**Who acts:** porthole, you · **What happens:** be, not write, write · **To what, where:** grimy glass, pig, several

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (porthole, you), 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:pg16:15:110
# text = There was not a porthole on the grimy glass of which you might not have written with your finger “Dirty pig”; and she had already written it on several.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	porthole	porthole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	grimy	grimy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
16	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	already	already	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **be** | past | a porthole |  |  | the grimy glass; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on glass=Location |
| 2 | **not** **write** | might · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | of the grimy glass; with your finger | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **write** | past · perfect | porthole | pig |  | several |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on several=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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