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title: “Then here’s to Johnny Plank!” he cried brazenly, hating the boys mo… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Then here’s to Johnny Plank!” he cried brazenly, hating the boys more than ever because they had seen him unbend. Who acts: Plank, boys. 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 38

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“Then here’s to Johnny Plank!” he cried brazenly, hating the boys more than ever because they had seen him unbend.

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**Who acts:** Plank, boys · **What happens:** be, cry, hate, see, unbend · **To what, where:** Johnny Plank, boys, Plank · **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 (Plank, boys), 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:pg16:16:38
# text = “Then here’s to Johnny Plank!” he cried brazenly, hating the boys more than ever because they had seen him unbend.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Plank	Plank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	brazenly	brazenly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	hating	hate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	obl	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	unbend	unbend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  | Johnny Plank |  | then | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Plank |  |  |  |  | brazenly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hate** | gerund | Plank *not said here* | the boys |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | past · perfect | boys *= boy* | Plank |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **unbend** | infinitive | Plank *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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