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title: That passionate breast no longer asked for life; but for one boon it… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: That passionate breast no longer asked for life; but for one boon it craved: to see Peter show bad form before it was cold forever. Who acts: That, breast, 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 claus
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 171

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That passionate breast no longer asked for life; but for one boon it craved: to see Peter show bad form before it was cold forever.

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**Who acts:** That, breast, Peter · **What happens:** passionate, ask, crave, see, show, be · **To what, where:** breast, bad form · **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 (That, breast, 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:pg16:16:171
# text = That passionate breast no longer asked for life; but for one boon it craved: to see Peter show bad form before it was cold forever.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	passionate	passionate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	no	no	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	boon	boon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	craved	crave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
19	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
21	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	ccomp	_	_
27	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **passionate** | present | That | breast |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | That *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for life; long *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **crave** | past | breast |  |  |  |  | for one boon | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for boon=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | breast *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **show** | present | Peter | bad form |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent form=Recipient |
| 6 | **is** | past | breast |  |  |  |  | cold, forever *property* | tree rules |

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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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