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title: “Hullo, Peter,” she replied faintly, squeezing herself as small as p… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Hullo, Peter,” she replied faintly, squeezing herself as small as possible. Who acts: Jane. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 192

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“Hullo, Peter,” she replied faintly, squeezing herself as small as possible.

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**Who acts:** Jane · **What happens:** reply, squeeze · **To what, where:** Jane

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jane), 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:pg16:18:192
# text = “Hullo, Peter,” she replied faintly, squeezing herself as small as possible.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hullo	hullo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	faintly	faintly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	squeezing	squeeze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Jane |  |  |  |  | faintly *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **squeeze** | gerund | Jane *not said here* | Jane |  |  |  | small *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=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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