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title: Cecco, bravest of the brave, cowered before his captain, crying “No,… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Cecco, bravest of the brave, cowered before his captain, crying “No, no”; but Hook was purring to his claw. Who acts: Hook. 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 64

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Cecco, bravest of the brave, cowered before his captain, crying “No, no”; but Hook was purring to his claw.

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**Who acts:** Hook · **What happens:** cower, cry, purr · **To what, where:** no, claw

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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 (Hook), 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:pg16:16:64
# text = Cecco, bravest of the brave, cowered before his captain, crying “No, no”; but Hook was purring to his claw.
1	Cecco	Cecco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bravest	brave	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	cowered	cower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	17	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	Hook	Hook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	purring	purr	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	claw	claw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	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 | **cower** | participle |  |  |  |  | before Cecco's captain |  | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  | no |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent no=Topic |
| 3 | **purr** | past · progressive | Hook |  | Cecco's claw |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to claw=Recipient |

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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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