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title: “Lads,” he said, ready to cajole or strike as need be, but never qua… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Lads,” he said, ready to cajole or strike as need be, but never quailing for an instant, “I’ve thought it out. Who acts: Lads. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 122

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“Lads,” he said, ready to cajole or strike as need be, but never quailing for an instant, “I’ve thought it out.

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**Who acts:** Lads · **What happens:** say, cajole, strike, not quail, have, think out · **To what, where:** need · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lads), 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:pg16:16:122
# text = “Lads,” he said, ready to cajole or strike as need be, but never quailing for an instant, “I’ve thought it out.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Lads	lad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	cajole	cajole	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	quailing	quail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advmod	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’ve	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
27	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Lads |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cajole** | to-infinitive | Lads *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **strike** | infinitive | Lads *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **quail** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for a instant | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Lads *= lad* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **think out** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | Lads *not said here* | need |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |

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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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