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title: He thought of hopping off in a comic sort of way till he was out of… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: He thought of hopping off in a comic sort of way till he was out of sight of her, and then never going near the spot any more. Who acts: Peter. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 46

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He thought of hopping off in a comic sort of way till he was out of sight of her, and then never going near the spot any more.

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**Who acts:** Peter · **What happens:** think, hop off, be, not go, sort · **To what, where:** comic sort, sight, spot, way

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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 (Peter), 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:pg16:7:46
# text = He thought of hopping off in a comic sort of way till he was out of sight of her, and then never going near the spot any more.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	hopping	hop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	comic	comic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
25	near	near	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	any	any	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hop off** | gerund | Peter *not said here* |  |  | a comic sort of way |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sort=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | past | Peter |  |  | sight |  | of voice | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **go** | gerund | Peter *not said here* |  |  | the spot | then |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near spot=Location |
| 5 | **sort** |  |  | way |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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