--- title: “The matter wi’ him is he’s dead, stabbed,” replied Cecco in a hollo… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: “The matter wi’ him is he’s dead, stabbed,” replied Cecco in a hollow voice. Who acts: matter wi, Cecco. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/16/59/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Peter Pan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/) / [Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/16/) / 59 # Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 59 “The matter wi’ him is he’s dead, stabbed,” replied Cecco in a hollow voice. **Who acts:** matter wi, Cecco · **What happens:** be, stab, reply · **To what, where:** hollow voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (matter wi, Cecco), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg16:16:59 # text = “The matter wi’ him is he’s dead, stabbed,” replied Cecco in a hollow voice. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 wi wi NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 stabbed stab VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ” " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 15 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 Cecco Cecco PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the matter wi | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **stab** *in a quote* | participle | the matter wi *not said here* | | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Cecco | | | a hollow voice | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/16/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/16/60/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/16/)