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title: Thus it was offensive to him even now to board a ship in the same dr… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus it was offensive to him even now to board a ship in the same dress in which he grappled her, and he still adhered in his walk to the school’s distinguished slouch. Who acts: date, Hook. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 21

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Thus it was offensive to him even now to board a ship in the same dress in which he grappled her, and he still adhered in his walk to the school’s distinguished slouch.

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**Who acts:** date, Hook · **What happens:** be, board, grapple, adhere, walk · **To what, where:** Hook, ship, same dress, gait, walk

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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 (date, 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:pg16:15:21
# text = Thus it was offensive to him even now to board a ship in the same dress in which he grappled her, and he still adhered in his walk to the school’s distinguished slouch.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	offensive	offensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	board	board	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	grappled	grapple	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	adhered	adhere	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’s	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	slouch	slouch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | date |  | Hook |  | now | offensive, thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **board** | to-infinitive | date *not said here* | a ship |  | the same dress |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ship=Theme in dress=Location |
| 3 | **grapple** | past | Hook | gait |  | the same dress |  |  | vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **adhere** | past | Hook |  |  | Hook's walk | still | to the school's distinguished slouch | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to slouch=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **walk** |  | Hook |  |  |  |  |  | nom walk «act transitive»: 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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