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title: He was determined to show who was master in that house, and when com… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: He was determined to show who was master in that house, and when commands would not draw Nana from the kennel, he lured her out of it with honeyed words, and seizing her roughly, dragged her from the nursery. Who acts: George, commands. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHAD
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# Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 172

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He was determined to show who was master in that house, and when commands would not draw Nana from the kennel, he lured her out of it with honeyed words, and seizing her roughly, dragged her from the nursery.

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**Who acts:** George, commands · **What happens:** be, show, not draw, lure, honey, seize · **To what, where:** master, house, Nana, kennel, nursery · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (George, commands), 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:pg16:3:172
# text = He was determined to show who was master in that house, and when commands would not draw Nana from the kennel, he lured her out of it with honeyed words, and seizing her roughly, dragged her from the nursery.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
15	commands	command	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
19	Nana	Nana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	kennel	kennel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	lured	lure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	honeyed	honey	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
32	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	seizing	seize	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
40	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | George |  |  |  |  | determined *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | George *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | master |  | that house |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **draw** | would | commands | Nana |  | the kennel |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent nana=Theme from kennel=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **lure** | past | George | Nana |  | kennel |  | with honeyed words | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 6 | **honey** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **seize** | gerund | George *not said here* | Nana |  |  |  | roughly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Theme |
| 8 | **drag** | past | George *not said here* | Nana |  | the nursery |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent she=Theme from nursery=Initial\_Location |

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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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