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title: His reluctance to return to the cabin impressed them all unfavourabl… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: His reluctance to return to the cabin impressed them all unfavourably, and the mutinous sounds again broke forth. Who acts: reluctance, mutinous sounds. 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 97

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His reluctance to return to the cabin impressed them all unfavourably, and the mutinous sounds again broke forth.

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**Who acts:** reluctance, mutinous sounds · **What happens:** return, impress, break · **To what, where:** Hook

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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 (reluctance, mutinous sounds), 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:pg16:16:97
# text = His reluctance to return to the cabin impressed them all unfavourably, and the mutinous sounds again broke forth.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	reluctance	reluctance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cabin	cabin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	impressed	impress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	unfavourably	unfavourably	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	mutinous	mutinous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | to-infinitive | Cecco's reluctance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the cabin *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to cabin=Result |
| 2 | **impress** | past | Cecco's reluctance | Hook |  |  |  | unfavourably *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
| 3 | **break** | past | the mutinous sounds |  |  |  | again | forth *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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