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title: “As I can’t be anything important,” said Tootles, “would any of you… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “As I can’t be anything important,” said Tootles, “would any of you like to see me do a trick?” Who acts: Tootles, any. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 49

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“As I can’t be anything important,” said Tootles, “would any of you like to see me do a trick?”

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**Who acts:** Tootles, any · **What happens:** not be, say, like, see, do · **To what, where:** Tootles, trick · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tootles, any), 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:pg16:11:49
# text = “As I can’t be anything important,” said Tootles, “would any of you like to see me do a trick?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Tootles	tootle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | can | Tootles *= tootle* |  |  |  |  | anything *obl:unmarked*; important *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Tootles |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **like** *in a quote* | would | any |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **see** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | any *not said here* | Tootles *= tootle* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | Tootles *= tootle* *not said here* | a trick |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Eventuality |

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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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