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title: Hook heaved a heavy sigh, and I know not why it was, perhaps it was… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Hook heaved a heavy sigh, and I know not why it was, perhaps it was because of the soft beauty of the evening, but there came over him a desire to confide to his faithful bo’sun the story of his life. Who acts: Hook, I, sigh, desire. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND C
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# Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 110

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Hook heaved a heavy sigh, and I know not why it was, perhaps it was because of the soft beauty of the evening, but there came over him a desire to confide to his faithful bo’sun the story of his life.

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**Who acts:** Hook, I, sigh, desire · **What happens:** heave, not know, be, come over, confide · **To what, where:** heavy sigh, Hook, story, faithful bo’sun · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hook, I, sigh, desire), 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:pg16:6:110
# text = Hook heaved a heavy sigh, and I know not why it was, perhaps it was because of the soft beauty of the evening, but there came over him a desire to confide to his faithful bo’sun the story of his life.
1	Hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	heaved	heave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sigh	sigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
11	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	ccomp	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
18	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	29	expl	_	_
29	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
30	over	over	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	confide	confide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	bo’sun	bo'sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heave** | past | Hook | a heavy sigh |  |  |  |  | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | sigh |  |  |  | evening | because the soft beauty; perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come over** | past | a desire | Hook |  | there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **confide** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | a desire *not said here* | the story of Hook's life | Hook's faithful bo’sun |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to bo'sun=Recipient |

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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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