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title: “Peter Pan the avenger!” came the terrible answer; and as he spoke P… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Peter Pan the avenger!” came the terrible answer; and as he spoke Peter flung off his cloak. Who acts: Peter. 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 134

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“Peter Pan the avenger!” came the terrible answer; and as he spoke Peter flung off his cloak.

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**Who acts:** Peter · **What happens:** come, speak, fling off · **To what, where:** terrible answer, cloak · **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 (Peter), 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:pg16:16:134
# text = “Peter Pan the avenger!” came the terrible answer; and as he spoke Peter flung off his cloak.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	Pan	Pan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	avenger	avenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
17	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Peter | the terrible answer |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location answer=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fling off** | past | Peter | Peter's cloak |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=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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