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title: Hook, scarcely his inferior in brilliancy, but not quite so nimble i… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Hook, scarcely his inferior in brilliancy, but not quite so nimble in wrist play, forced him back by the weight of his onset, hoping suddenly to end all with a favourite thrust, taught him long ago by Barbecue at Rio; but to his astonishment he found this thrust turned aside again and again. Who act
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 158

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Hook, scarcely his inferior in brilliancy, but not quite so nimble in wrist play, forced him back by the weight of his onset, hoping suddenly to end all with a favourite thrust, taught him long ago by Barbecue at Rio; but to his astonishment he found this thrust turned aside again and again.

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**Who acts:** Hook, Peter, thrust · **What happens:** force back, hope, end, teach, find, turn · **To what, where:** Peter, all, Rio, astonishment

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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 (Hook, Peter, thrust), 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:pg16:16:158
# text = Hook, scarcely his inferior in brilliancy, but not quite so nimble in wrist play, forced him back by the weight of his onset, hoping suddenly to end all with a favourite thrust, taught him long ago by Barbecue at Rio; but to his astonishment he found this thrust turned aside again and again.
1	Hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	inferior	inferior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	appos	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	brilliancy	brilliancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
11	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	nimble	nimble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	wrist	wrist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
18	forced	force	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	onset	onset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
29	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	obj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	41	advmod	_	_
41	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
42	by	by	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Barbecue	Barbecue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Rio	Rio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
47	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	acl:relcl	_	_
53	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	54	det	_	_
54	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nsubj	_	_
55	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
56	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
57	again	again	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	again	again	ADV	RB	_	57	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **force back** | past | Hook |  | Peter |  |  | by the weight of Peter's onset | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **hope** | gerund | Hook *not said here* |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **end** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Hook *not said here* | all |  |  |  | with a favourite thrust | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector all=Eventuality with thrust=Subeventuality |
| 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | Hook *not said here* |  | Peter | Rio |  | by Barbecue; ago *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 5 | **find** | past | Peter | Peter's astonishment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent astonishment=Topic |
| 6 | **turn** | past | this thrust |  |  | Peter's astonishment | again | aside *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to astonishment=Trajectory |
| 7 | **astonish** |  | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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