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title: A few moments afterwards the other boys saw Hook in the water striki… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: A few moments afterwards the other boys saw Hook in the water striking wildly for the ship; no elation on the pestilent face now, only white fear, for the crocodile was in dogged pursuit of him. Who acts: few moments, water, crocodile. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MER
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 248

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A few moments afterwards the other boys saw Hook in the water striking wildly for the ship; no elation on the pestilent face now, only white fear, for the crocodile was in dogged pursuit of him.

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**Who acts:** few moments, water, crocodile · **What happens:** see, strike, be · **To what, where:** Hook, water, dogged pursuit

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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 (few moments, water, crocodile), 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:pg16:9:248
# text = A few moments afterwards the other boys saw Hook in the water striking wildly for the ship; no elation on the pestilent face now, only white fear, for the crocodile was in dogged pursuit of him.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	wildly	wildly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	elation	elation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	pestilent	pestilent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	dogged	dogged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | a few moments | Hook |  | the water |  | afterwards *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hook=Stimulus |
| 2 | **strike** | gerund | the water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the ship; wildly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the crocodile |  |  | dogged pursuit |  | of Peter | 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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