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title: “Brimstone and gall,” thundered Hook, “what cozening is going on her… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Brimstone and gall,” thundered Hook, “what cozening is going on here!” Who acts: Brimstone. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 138

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“Brimstone and gall,” thundered Hook, “what cozening is going on here!”

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**Who acts:** Brimstone · **What happens:** thunder, cozen, go on · **To what, where:** Hook · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brimstone), 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:pg16:9:138
# text = “Brimstone and gall,” thundered Hook, “what cozening is going on here!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Brimstone	brimstone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	gall	gall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	thundered	thunder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Hook	Hook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
12	cozening	cozen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thunder** | past | Brimstone and gall | Hook |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cozen** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Source |
| 3 | **go on** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Brimstone and gall *not said here* |  |  | here |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «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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