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title: Tink was very contemptuous of the rest of the house, as indeed was p… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Tink was very contemptuous of the rest of the house, as indeed was perhaps inevitable, and her chamber, though beautiful, looked rather conceited, having the appearance of a nose permanently turned up. Who acts: Tink. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND,
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 25

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Tink was very contemptuous of the rest of the house, as indeed was perhaps inevitable, and her chamber, though beautiful, looked rather conceited, having the appearance of a nose permanently turned up.

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**Who acts:** Tink · **What happens:** be, look, have, turn up · **To what, where:** appearance

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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 (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:pg16:8:25
# text = Tink was very contemptuous of the rest of the house, as indeed was perhaps inevitable, and her chamber, though beautiful, looked rather conceited, having the appearance of a nose permanently turned up.
1	Tink	Tink	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	contemptuous	contemptuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	inevitable	inevitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	conceited	conceited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	permanently	permanently	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Tink |  |  |  |  | of the rest of the house; contemptuous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | indeed, inevitable, perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | past | Tink *not said here* |  |  |  |  | conceited *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **have** | gerund | Tink *not said here* | the appearance of a nose |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Patient |
| 5 | **turn up** | past | Tink *not said here* |  |  |  |  | permanently *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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