--- title: The cooking, I can tell you, kept her nose to the pot, and even if t… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics description: The cooking, I can tell you, kept her nose to the pot, and even if there was nothing in it, even if there was no pot, she had to keep watching that it came aboil just the same. Who acts: cooking, pot. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/28/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Peter Pan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/) / [Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/) / 28 # Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 28 The cooking, I can tell you, kept her nose to the pot, and even if there was nothing in it, even if there was no pot, she had to keep watching that it came aboil just the same. **Who acts:** cooking, pot · **What happens:** tell, keep, be, have, watch, come · **To what, where:** you, nose, nothing, pot · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (cooking, pot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg16:8:28 # text = The cooking, I can tell you, kept her nose to the pot, and even if there was nothing in it, even if there was no pot, she had to keep watching that it came aboil just the same. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cooking cooking NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 even even ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 20 expl _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 6 obl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 even even ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 26 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 28 expl _ _ 28 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 29 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 30 det _ _ 30 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 watching watch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 xcomp _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 40 aboil aboil ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 41 just just ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | the cooking | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **keep** | past | | cooking's nose | | | | to the pot | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | past | | nothing | | pot | | | tree rules | | 4 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | no pot | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **have** | past | cooking | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **keep** | to-infinitive | cooking *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **watch** | gerund | cooking *not said here* | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **come** | past | pot | | | | | aboil, same *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/29/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg16/8/)