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title: Then they all knew who ’twas that had been undoing them in the cabin… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they all knew who ’twas that had been undoing them in the cabin, and twice Hook essayed to speak and twice he failed. Who acts: things, Hook, 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 135

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Then they all knew who ’twas that had been undoing them in the cabin, and twice Hook essayed to speak and twice he failed.

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**Who acts:** things, Hook, Peter · **What happens:** know, be, undo, essay, speak, fail · **To what, where:** things, cabin · **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 (things, Hook, Peter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg16:2055`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg16:16:135
# text = Then they all knew who ’twas that had been undoing them in the cabin, and twice Hook essayed to speak and twice he failed.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
4	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	ccomp	_	_
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
7	twas	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux	_	_
11	undoing	undo	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cabin	cabin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	advmod	_	_
19	Hook	Hook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	essayed	essay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	26	advmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | things *= thing* |  |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **undo** | past · perfect · progressive |  | things *= thing* |  | the cabin |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **essay** | past | Hook |  |  |  |  | twice *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Hook *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **fail** | past | Peter |  |  |  |  | twice *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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