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title: Seizing a lantern and raising his claw with a menacing gesture, “I’l… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Seizing a lantern and raising his claw with a menacing gesture, “I’ll bring out that doodle-doo myself,” he said, and sped into the cabin. Who acts: mutiny. 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 89

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Seizing a lantern and raising his claw with a menacing gesture, “I’ll bring out that doodle-doo myself,” he said, and sped into the cabin.

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**Who acts:** mutiny · **What happens:** seize, raise, menace, 'll, bring out, say · **To what, where:** lantern, claw, doodle doo, cabin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (mutiny), 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:pg16:16:89
# text = Seizing a lantern and raising his claw with a menacing gesture, “I’ll bring out that doodle-doo myself,” he said, and sped into the cabin.
1	Seizing	seize	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lantern	lantern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	raising	raise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	claw	claw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	menacing	menace	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	gesture	gesture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’ll	'll	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
16	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
19	doodle	doodle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	doo	doo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
22	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	sped	speed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	cabin	cabin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | gerund | mutiny *not said here* | a lantern |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lantern=Theme |
| 2 | **raise** | gerund | mutiny *not said here* | mutiny's claw |  |  |  | with a menacing gesture | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent claw=Patient with gesture=Instrument |
| 3 | **menace** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **'ll** *in a quote* | present | mutiny |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bring out** *in a quote* | infinitive | mutiny *not said here* | that doodle doo |  |  |  | myself *obl:unmarked* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent doo=Patient |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | mutiny |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **speed** | past |  |  |  | the cabin |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into cabin=Destination |

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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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