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title: For long he muttered to himself, staring at Smee, who was hemming pl… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: For long he muttered to himself, staring at Smee, who was hemming placidly, under the conviction that all children feared him. Who acts: Hook, children. 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 43

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For long he muttered to himself, staring at Smee, who was hemming placidly, under the conviction that all children feared him.

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**Who acts:** Hook, children · **What happens:** mutter, stare, hem, fear · **To what, where:** Hook, conviction

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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, children), 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:pg16:15:43
# text = For long he muttered to himself, staring at Smee, who was hemming placidly, under the conviction that all children feared him.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	muttered	mutter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Smee	Smee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	hemming	hem	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
15	placidly	placidly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	conviction	conviction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | past | Hook |  | Hook |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
| 2 | **stare** | gerund | Hook *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Smee | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at smee=Theme |
| 3 | **hem** | past · progressive |  |  |  | the conviction |  | placidly *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fear** | past | all children | the conviction |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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