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title: Strange that he should think of this, which had never troubled him b… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Strange that he should think of this, which had never troubled him before; perhaps the sewing machine brought it to his mind. Who acts: Hook, sewing machine. 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 42

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Strange that he should think of this, which had never troubled him before; perhaps the sewing machine brought it to his mind.

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**Who acts:** Hook, sewing machine · **What happens:** think, not trouble, bring, mind · **To what, where:** Hook, ambition, mind

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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, sewing machine), 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:pg16:15:42
# text = Strange that he should think of this, which had never troubled him before; perhaps the sewing machine brought it to his mind.
1	Strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	troubled	trouble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	before	before	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	sewing	sewing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | should | Hook |  |  |  |  | of this | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **trouble** | past · perfect · passive |  | Hook |  |  |  | before *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result |
| 3 | **bring** | past | the sewing machine | ambition |  | Hook's mind |  | perhaps *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to mind=Destination |
| 4 | **mind** |  | Hook |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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