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title: “I once thought of calling myself Red-handed Jack,” he said diffiden… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “I once thought of calling myself Red-handed Jack,” he said diffidently. Who acts: Jack. 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 86

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“I once thought of calling myself Red-handed Jack,” he said diffidently.

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** think, call, hand, say · **To what, where:** Jack · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Jack), 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:pg16:15:86
# text = “I once thought of calling myself Red-handed Jack,” he said diffidently.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	_
11	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	diffidently	diffidently	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | Jack |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** *in a quote* | gerund | Jack *not said here* | Jack |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hand** *in a quote* | participle | Jack *not said here* | Jack |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jack |  |  |  |  | diffidently *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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