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title: Then they had to tell Peter of Tink’s crime, and almost never had th… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they had to tell Peter of Tink’s crime, and almost never had they seen him look so stern. Who acts: Nibs, Peter, Tink. 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 76

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Then they had to tell Peter of Tink’s crime, and almost never had they seen him look so stern.

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**Who acts:** Nibs, Peter, Tink · **What happens:** have, tell, not see, look, incriminate · **To what, where:** Peter · **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 (Nibs, Peter, Tink), 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:pg16:7:76
# text = Then they had to tell Peter of Tink’s crime, and almost never had they seen him look so stern.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Tink	Tink	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	stern	stern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Nibs *= nib* |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Nibs *= nib* *not said here* |  | Peter of Tink's crime |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent peter=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | Nibs *= nib* | Peter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | infinitive | Peter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | stern *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **incriminate** |  | Tink |  |  |  |  |  | nom crime «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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