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title: Slightly got a dozen for looking perplexed when told to take soundin… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 13

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Slightly got a dozen for looking perplexed when told to take soundings.

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**What happens:** get, perplex, tell, take · **To what, where:** dozen, soundings · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg16:17:13
# text = Slightly got a dozen for looking perplexed when told to take soundings.
1	Slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	perplexed	perplex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	soundings	sounding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past |  | a dozen |  |  |  | slightly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dozen=Stimulus |
| 2 | **perplex** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | soundings |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sounding=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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