--- title: “Smee,” he said huskily, “that crocodile would have had me before th… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: “Smee,” he said huskily, “that crocodile would have had me before this, but by a lucky chance it swallowed a clock which goes tick tick inside it, and so before it can reach me I hear the tick and bolt.” Who acts: Peter, crocodile, chance, clock. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/130/) [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 V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/) / 130 # Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 130 “Smee,” he said huskily, “that crocodile would have had me before this, but by a lucky chance it swallowed a clock which goes tick tick inside it, and so before it can reach me I hear the tick and bolt.” **Who acts:** Peter, crocodile, chance, clock · **What happens:** say, have, swallow, go, tick, reach · **To what, where:** Peter, clock, tick, chance · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Peter, crocodile, chance, clock), 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:pg16:6:130 # text = “Smee,” he said huskily, “that crocodile would have had me before this, but by a lucky chance it swallowed a clock which goes tick tick inside it, and so before it can reach me I hear the tick and bolt.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Smee smee NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 huskily huskily ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 det _ _ 11 crocodile crocodile NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 aux _ _ 14 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 15 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 before before ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 lucky lucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 swallowed swallow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 tick tick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 31 tick tick NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 inside inside ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 36 so so ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 37 before before SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 advcl _ _ 41 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 tick tick NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 bolt bolt NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Peter | | | | | huskily *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | would · perfect | that crocodile | Peter | | | before this | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | | 3 | **swallow** *in a quote* | past | chance | a clock | | | | by a lucky chance | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Patient | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | present | a clock | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **tick** *in a quote* | infinitive | a clock *not said here* | tick | | chance | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tick=Theme | | 6 | **reach** *in a quote* | can | chance | Peter | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 7 | **hear** *in a quote* | present | Peter | the tick and bolt | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tick=Stimulus | 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 129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/129/) - next →: [sentence 131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/131/) - ↑ back to [Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/6/)