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title: He had seen the crocodile pass by without noticing anything peculiar… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: He had seen the crocodile pass by without noticing anything peculiar about it, but by and by he remembered that it had not been ticking. Who acts: experience, crocodile, peculiar. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 5

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He had seen the crocodile pass by without noticing anything peculiar about it, but by and by he remembered that it had not been ticking.

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**Who acts:** experience, crocodile, peculiar · **What happens:** see, pass by, notice, remember, not tick · **To what, where:** crocodile, anything peculiar

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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 (experience, crocodile, peculiar), 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:pg16:16:5
# text = He had seen the crocodile pass by without noticing anything peculiar about it, but by and by he remembered that it had not been ticking.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	_
8	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	noticing	notice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
10	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	compound	_	_
11	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	conj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	aux	_	_
26	ticking	tick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · perfect | experience | the crocodile |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass by** | infinitive | the crocodile *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **notice** | gerund | the crocodile *not said here* | anything peculiar |  |  |  | about peculiar | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer peculiar=Stimulus |
| 4 | **remember** | past | experience |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **tick** | past · perfect · progressive | peculiar |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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