--- title: It was his grimmest deed since the days when he had brought Barbecue… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: It was his grimmest deed since the days when he had brought Barbecue to heel; and knowing as we do how vain a tabernacle is man, could we be surprised had he now paced the deck unsteadily, bellied out by the winds of his success? Who acts: plank, Peter, we, knowing. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Peter Pan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/) / [Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/) / 12 # Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 12 It was his grimmest deed since the days when he had brought Barbecue to heel; and knowing as we do how vain a tabernacle is man, could we be surprised had he now paced the deck unsteadily, bellied out by the winds of his success? **Who acts:** plank, Peter, we, knowing, man · **What happens:** be, bring, heel, know, do, vain · **To what, where:** grimmest deed, Barbecue, tabernacle, man, deck, success · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (plank, Peter, we, knowing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg16:15:12 # text = It was his grimmest deed since the days when he had brought Barbecue to heel; and knowing as we do how vain a tabernacle is man, could we be surprised had he now paced the deck unsteadily, bellied out by the winds of his success? 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 grimmest grim ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 5 deed deed NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 since since ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 Barbecue barbecue NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 heel heel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 18 knowing know VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 csubj _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 22 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 23 vain vain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 tabernacle tabernacle NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 30 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 cop _ _ 32 surprised surprised ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ _ 33 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 36 paced pace VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 ccomp _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 deck deck NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 unsteadily unsteadily ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 bellied belly VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 42 out out ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ _ 43 by by ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 winds wind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 success success NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | plank | Peter's grimmest deed | | | day | | tree rules | | 2 | **bring** | past · perfect | Peter | Barbecue | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent barbecue=Theme | | 3 | **heel** | to-infinitive | Peter *not said here* | Barbecue *not said here* | | | | | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **know** | gerund | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **do** | present | we | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **vain** | infinitive | we *not said here* | a tabernacle | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **is a** | present | knowing | man | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **is** | could | we | | | | | surprised *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **have** | past | man | Peter's grimmest deed *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **pace** | past | Peter | the deck | | | now | unsteadily *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location deck=Theme | | 11 | **belly out** | participle | | | | | | by the winds of Peter's success | tree rules | | 12 | **wind** | | | Peter's success | | | | | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/13/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/15/)