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title: From far within him he heard a creaking as of rusty portals, and thr… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: From far within him he heard a creaking as of rusty portals, and through them came a stern tap-tap-tap, like hammering in the night when one cannot sleep. Who acts: Hook, stern tap tap, tap, one. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, with its dependency tree and th
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 25

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From far within him he heard a creaking as of rusty portals, and through them came a stern tap-tap-tap, like hammering in the night when one cannot sleep.

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**Who acts:** Hook, stern tap tap, tap, one · **What happens:** hear, creak, come, tap, hammer, not sleep

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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 (Hook, stern tap tap, tap, one), 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:pg16:15:25
# text = From far within him he heard a creaking as of rusty portals, and through them came a stern tap-tap-tap, like hammering in the night when one cannot sleep.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	within	within	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	creaking	creak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	rusty	rusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	portals	portal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
19	stern	stern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
20	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	hammering	hammer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	35	mark	_	_
32	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Hook |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **creak** | gerund | Hook *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as rusty portals | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | a stern tap tap |  |  |  |  | through portals *= portal* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through they=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **tap** |  | tap |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hammer** | gerund | a stern tap tap *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **sleep** | can | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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