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title: He gave his hat to Liza, who took it scornfully; for she had no imag… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: He gave his hat to Liza, who took it scornfully; for she had no imagination, and was quite incapable of understanding the motives of such a man. Who acts: Nana, Liza, incapable. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 76

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He gave his hat to Liza, who took it scornfully; for she had no imagination, and was quite incapable of understanding the motives of such a man.

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**Who acts:** Nana, Liza, incapable · **What happens:** give, take, have, be, understand · **To what, where:** hat, Liza, imagination, incapable, motives

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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 (Nana, Liza, incapable), 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:pg16:17:76
# text = He gave his hat to Liza, who took it scornfully; for she had no imagination, and was quite incapable of understanding the motives of such a man.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Liza	Liza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	scornfully	scornfully	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	incapable	incapable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	understanding	understand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	motives	motive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	30	det:predet	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Nana | Nana's hat | Liza |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hat=Theme to liza=Recipient |
| 2 | **take** | past | Liza | hat |  |  |  | scornfully *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | Liza | no imagination |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent imagination=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | incapable |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **understand** | gerund | incapable *not said here* | the motives of such man |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer motive=Stimulus |

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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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