--- title: Presently Wendy took the hat, because John said it struck against hi… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: Presently Wendy took the hat, because John said it struck against his knee as he flew; and this, as we shall see, led to mischief, for Tinker Bell hated to be under an obligation to Wendy. Who acts: Wendy, John, hat, Peter. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/5/181/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Peter Pan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/) / [Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/5/) / 181 # Peter Pan, Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT, sentence 181 Presently Wendy took the hat, because John said it struck against his knee as he flew; and this, as we shall see, led to mischief, for Tinker Bell hated to be under an obligation to Wendy. **Who acts:** Wendy, John, hat, Peter, we, Tinker Bell · **What happens:** take, say, strike, fly, see, lead · **To what, where:** hat, knee, Wendy, obligation · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Wendy, John, hat, Peter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg16:5:181 # text = Presently Wendy took the hat, because John said it struck against his knee as he flew; and this, as we shall see, led to mischief, for Tinker Bell hated to be under an obligation to Wendy. 1 Presently presently ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 Wendy Wendy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 hat hat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 struck strike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 12 against against ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 knee knee NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 led lead VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 mischief mischief NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 for for SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 Tinker Tinker PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 Bell Bell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 hated hate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 36 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 cop _ _ 37 under under ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 obligation obligation NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 ccomp _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 Wendy Wendy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | Wendy | the hat | | | | this *obl*; presently *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | John | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **strike** | past | hat | | | Peter's knee | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against knee=Location | | 4 | **fly** | past | Peter | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **see** | shall | we | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **lead** | participle | | | | | | to mischief | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to mischief=Patient | | 7 | **hate** | past | Tinker Bell | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Tinker Bell *not said here* | | Wendy | a obligation | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 180](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/5/180/) - next →: [sentence 182](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/5/182/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/5/)