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description: At first he thought this eerie, but soon concluded rightly that the clock had run down. Who acts: experience. 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 6

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At first he thought this eerie, but soon concluded rightly that the clock had run down.

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**Who acts:** experience · **What happens:** think, conclude, run down · **To what, where:** clock

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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), 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:pg16:16:6
# text = At first he thought this eerie, but soon concluded rightly that the clock had run down.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
6	eerie	eerie	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	concluded	conclude	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	rightly	rightly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | experience |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **conclude** | past | experience *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rightly, soon *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **run down** | past · perfect · passive |  | the clock |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |

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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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