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title: Hitherto he had thought it was some fiend fighting him, but darker s… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Hitherto he had thought it was some fiend fighting him, but darker suspicions assailed him now. Who acts: Peter, form, fiend, darker suspicions. 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 163

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Hitherto he had thought it was some fiend fighting him, but darker suspicions assailed him now.

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**Who acts:** Peter, form, fiend, darker suspicions · **What happens:** think, be, fight, assail · **To what, where:** fiend, Peter · **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, form, fiend, darker suspicions), 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:pg16:16:163
# text = Hitherto he had thought it was some fiend fighting him, but darker suspicions assailed him now.
1	Hitherto	hitherto	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	fiend	fiend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
9	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	darker	dark	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	suspicions	suspicion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	assailed	assail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · perfect | Peter |  |  |  |  | hitherto *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | form | some fiend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fight** | gerund | some fiend *not said here* | Peter |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **assail** | past | darker suspicions | Peter |  |  | now |  | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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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