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title: It was afterwards whispered among them that on the first night he wo… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: It was afterwards whispered among them that on the first night he wore this suit he sat long in the cabin with Hook’s cigar-holder in his mouth and one hand clenched, all but for the forefinger, which he bent and held threateningly aloft like a hook. Who acts: Wendy, forefinger. A sentence of «Peter
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 15

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It was afterwards whispered among them that on the first night he wore this suit he sat long in the cabin with Hook’s cigar-holder in his mouth and one hand clenched, all but for the forefinger, which he bent and held threateningly aloft like a hook.

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**Who acts:** Wendy, forefinger · **What happens:** whisper, wear, sit, clench, bend, hold · **To what, where:** suit, cabin, one hand

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wendy, forefinger), 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:pg16:17:15
# text = It was afterwards whispered among them that on the first night he wore this suit he sat long in the cabin with Hook’s cigar-holder in his mouth and one hand clenched, all but for the forefinger, which he bent and held threateningly aloft like a hook.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	among	among	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
18	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	cabin	cabin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	Hook	Hook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	cigar	cigar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	holder	holder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	clenched	clench	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	advmod	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	forefinger	forefinger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	parataxis	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	conj	_	_
47	threateningly	threateningly	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	aloft	aloft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	xcomp	_	_
49	like	like	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | suit |  |  |  | among garments *= garment*; afterwards *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **wear** | past | Wendy | this suit |  |  | night |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent suit=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | past | Wendy |  |  | the cabin |  | with Hook's cigar holder; in Wendy's mouth; long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cabin=Location |
| 4 | **clench** | participle | Wendy *not said here* | one hand |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **bend** | past | the forefinger |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **hold** | past | the forefinger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | aloft *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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