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title: “Hook,” answered Peter, and his face became very stern as he said th… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Hook,” answered Peter, and his face became very stern as he said that hated word. Who acts: Hook, face. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 119

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“Hook,” answered Peter, and his face became very stern as he said that hated word.

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**Who acts:** Hook, face · **What happens:** answer, become, say, hate · **To what, where:** Peter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hook, face), 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:pg16:5:119
# text = “Hook,” answered Peter, and his face became very stern as he said that hated word.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	stern	stern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	hated	hate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Hook |  | Peter |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent peter=Eventuality |
| 2 | **become** | past | Peter's face |  |  |  |  | stern *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | face |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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