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title: Hook, you remember, had sneered at the boys for thinking they needed… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Hook, you remember, had sneered at the boys for thinking they needed a tree apiece, but this was ignorance, for unless your tree fitted you it was difficult to go up and down, and no two of the boys were quite the same size. Who acts: you, boys, tree, two. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, 
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 2

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Hook, you remember, had sneered at the boys for thinking they needed a tree apiece, but this was ignorance, for unless your tree fitted you it was difficult to go up and down, and no two of the boys were quite the same size.

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**Who acts:** you, boys, tree, two · **What happens:** remember, sneer, think, need, be, fit · **To what, where:** Hook, tree apiece, ignorance, you, same size · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, boys, tree, two), 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:pg16:8:2
# text = Hook, you remember, had sneered at the boys for thinking they needed a tree apiece, but this was ignorance, for unless your tree fitted you it was difficult to go up and down, and no two of the boys were quite the same size.
1	Hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	sneered	sneer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:agent	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	apiece	apiece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	ignorance	ignorance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	fitted	fit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	expl	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	parataxis	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	csubj	_	_
35	up	up	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	down	down	ADV	RB	_	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
40	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	41	det	_	_
41	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	49	nsubj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
45	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
46	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sneer** | past · perfect · passive | the boys | Hook |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the boys *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **need** | past | boys *= boy* | a tree apiece |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot apiece=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | this ignorance |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fit** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | your tree | you |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 7 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | difficult *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **go up** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 9 | **is a** | past | no two of the boys | the same size |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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