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title: In that supreme moment Hook did not blanch, even at the gills, but S… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: In that supreme moment Hook did not blanch, even at the gills, but Smee and Starkey clung to each other in terror. Who acts: Smee. 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 147

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In that supreme moment Hook did not blanch, even at the gills, but Smee and Starkey clung to each other in terror.

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**Who acts:** Smee · **What happens:** not blanch, cling · **To what, where:** supreme moment Hook, terror

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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 (Smee), 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:pg16:9:147
# text = In that supreme moment Hook did not blanch, even at the gills, but Smee and Starkey clung to each other in terror.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	supreme	supreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	blanch	blanch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	gills	gill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	Smee	Smee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Starkey	Starkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	clung	cling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	19	obl	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	fixed	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **blanch** | past · do-support |  |  |  | supreme moment Hook |  | at the gills | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at gill=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cling** | past | Smee and Starkey |  |  | terror |  | to each | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to each=Co-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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