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title: He signed to them not to give vent to any cry of admiration that mig… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: He signed to them not to give vent to any cry of admiration that might rouse suspicion. Who acts: Peter, admiration. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 156

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He signed to them not to give vent to any cry of admiration that might rouse suspicion.

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**Who acts:** Peter, admiration · **What happens:** sign, not give, rouse, cry · **To what, where:** men, vent, cry, suspicion

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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 (Peter, admiration), 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:pg16:15:156
# text = He signed to them not to give vent to any cry of admiration that might rouse suspicion.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	signed	sign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
8	vent	vent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	rouse	rouse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	suspicion	suspicion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sign** | past | Peter |  | men *= man* |  |  |  | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient when S\_INF»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **give** | to-infinitive | Peter *not said here* | vent | any cry of admiration |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent vent=Theme to cry=Recipient |
| 3 | **rouse** | might | admiration | suspicion |  |  |  |  | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suspicion=Patient |
| 4 | **cry** |  | admiration |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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