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title: “I’m youth, I’m joy,” Peter answered at a venture, “I’m a little bir… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “I’m youth, I’m joy,” Peter answered at a venture, “I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.” Who acts: Peter, little bird. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 165

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“I’m youth, I’m joy,” Peter answered at a venture, “I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”

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**Who acts:** Peter, little bird · **What happens:** be, answer, break out · **To what, where:** youth, joy, venture, little bird, egg · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, little bird), 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:pg16:16:165
# text = “I’m youth, I’m joy,” Peter answered at a venture, “I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’m	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’m	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
11	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	venture	venture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’m	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | Peter | youth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | Peter | joy |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot joy=Theme |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Peter |  |  | a venture |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* | present | Peter | a little bird |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bird=Theme |
| 5 | **break out** *in a quote* | present · perfect | a little bird | the egg |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egg=Patient |

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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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