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title: The little house was so pleased to have such a capital chimney that,… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The little house was so pleased to have such a capital chimney that, as if to say thank you, smoke immediately began to come out of the hat. Who acts: little house, smoke. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 184

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The little house was so pleased to have such a capital chimney that, as if to say thank you, smoke immediately began to come out of the hat.

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**Who acts:** little house, smoke · **What happens:** be, have, say, thank, begin, come out · **To what, where:** capital chimney, smoke, you, hat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little house, smoke), 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:pg16:7:184
# text = The little house was so pleased to have such a capital chimney that, as if to say thank you, smoke immediately began to come out of the hat.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	12	det:predet	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	capital	capital	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
19	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the little house |  |  |  |  | pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | the little house *not said here* | such capital chimney |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chimney=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the little house *not said here* | such capital chimney |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* | infinitive |  | smoke | you |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 5 | **begin** | past | smoke *not said here* |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **come out** | to-infinitive | smoke *not said here* | the hat |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient hat=Result |

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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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