--- title: “I’ve heard,” muttered Mullins, “he always boards the pirate craft l… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: “I’ve heard,” muttered Mullins, “he always boards the pirate craft last. Who acts: Mullins. 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/pg16/16/99/) [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/) / 99 # Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 99 “I’ve heard,” muttered Mullins, “he always boards the pirate craft last. **Who acts:** Mullins · **What happens:** hear, mutter, board · **To what, where:** pirate craft · **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 (Mullins), 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:pg16:16:99 # text = “I’ve heard,” muttered Mullins, “he always boards the pirate craft last. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ’ve have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 muttered mutter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Mullins Mullins PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 13 advmod _ _ 13 boards board VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 pirate pirate NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 craft craft NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Mullins | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | past | Mullins | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **board** *in a quote* | present | Mullins | the pirate craft | | | | always, last *property* | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme craft=Location | 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 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/16/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/16/100/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/16/)