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title: Thus, to take an instance, we suddenly discover that we have been de… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus, to take an instance, we suddenly discover that we have been deaf in one ear for we don’t know how long, but, say, half an hour. Who acts: we. 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 2

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Thus, to take an instance, we suddenly discover that we have been deaf in one ear for we don’t know how long, but, say, half an hour.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** take, discover, be, not know, say · **To what, where:** instance, one ear · **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 (we), 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:pg16:16:2
# text = Thus, to take an instance, we suddenly discover that we have been deaf in one ear for we don’t know how long, but, say, half an hour.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	discover	discover	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	_
15	deaf	deaf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
25	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	33	det:predet	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | a instance |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instance=Theme |
| 2 | **discover** | present | we |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present · perfect | we |  |  | one ear |  | deaf *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | we |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | hour |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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