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title: Slowly Hook let his head emerge from his ruff, and listened so inten… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Slowly Hook let his head emerge from his ruff, and listened so intently that he could have caught the echo of the tick. Who acts: Hook, head. 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 36

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Slowly Hook let his head emerge from his ruff, and listened so intently that he could have caught the echo of the tick.

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**Who acts:** Hook, head · **What happens:** let, emerge, listen, catch · **To what, where:** ruff, head

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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, head), 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:pg16:16:36
# text = Slowly Hook let his head emerge from his ruff, and listened so intently that he could have caught the echo of the tick.
1	Slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Hook	Hook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	emerge	emerge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	ruff	ruff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	intently	intently	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	echo	echo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	tick	tick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past | Hook |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **emerge** | infinitive | Smee's head |  |  | head's ruff |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from ruff=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **listen** | past | Hook *not said here* |  |  |  |  | intently *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **catch** | could · perfect · passive |  | head |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary echo=Theme |

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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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