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title: Twice Smee beat upon the instrument, and then stopped to listen glee… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Twice Smee beat upon the instrument, and then stopped to listen gleefully. Who acts: Smee. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 66

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Twice Smee beat upon the instrument, and then stopped to listen gleefully.

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**Who acts:** Smee · **What happens:** beat, stop, listen · **To what, where:** instrument

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF. 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:pg16:13:66
# text = Twice Smee beat upon the instrument, and then stopped to listen gleefully.
1	Twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
2	Smee	Smee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	gleefully	gleefully	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | past | Smee |  |  | the instrument |  | twice *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon instrument=Location |
| 2 | **stop** | past | Smee *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **listen** | to-infinitive | Smee *not said here* |  |  |  |  | gleefully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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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