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title: “What’s the matter with Bill Jukes, you dog?” hissed Hook, towering… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “What’s the matter with Bill Jukes, you dog?” hissed Hook, towering over him. Who acts: you, dog. 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 58

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“What’s the matter with Bill Jukes, you dog?” hissed Hook, towering over him.

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**Who acts:** you, dog · **What happens:** dog, hiss, tower · **To what, where:** matter

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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 (you, dog), 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:pg16:16:58
# text = “What’s the matter with Bill Jukes, you dog?” hissed Hook, towering over him.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Bill	Bill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	Jukes	Jukes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	hissed	hiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	Hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	towering	tower	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dog** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hiss** | past | dog | the matter with Bill |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Topic |
| 3 | **tower** | gerund | dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over Bill | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over he=Location |

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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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