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title: Then he sought to close and give the quietus with his iron hook, whi… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he sought to close and give the quietus with his iron hook, which all this time had been pawing the air; but Peter doubled under it and, lunging fiercely, pierced him in the ribs. Who acts: Peter, iron hook. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, with its
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 159

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Then he sought to close and give the quietus with his iron hook, which all this time had been pawing the air; but Peter doubled under it and, lunging fiercely, pierced him in the ribs.

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**Who acts:** Peter, iron hook · **What happens:** seek, close, give, paw, double, lunge · **To what, where:** quietus, air, Peter, ribs

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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, iron hook), 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:pg16:16:159
# text = Then he sought to close and give the quietus with his iron hook, which all this time had been pawing the air; but Peter doubled under it and, lunging fiercely, pierced him in the ribs.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	close	close	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	quietus	quietus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux	_	_
21	pawing	paw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	doubled	double	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
28	under	under	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	lunging	lunge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
33	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	pierced	pierce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	ribs	rib	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | past | Peter |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **close** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Peter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **give** | infinitive | Peter *not said here* | the quietus |  |  |  | with Peter's iron hook | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quietus=Theme |
| 4 | **paw** | past · perfect · progressive | Peter's iron hook | the air |  |  | time |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient |
| 5 | **double** | past | Peter |  |  | air |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **lunge** | gerund | Peter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fiercely *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **pierce** | past | Peter *not said here* | Peter |  | the ribs |  |  | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Instrument |

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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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