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title: Some like Peter best, and some like Wendy best, but I like her best. — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Some like Peter best, and some like Wendy best, but I like her best. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 68

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Some like Peter best, and some like Wendy best, but I like her best.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** like · **To what, where:** best

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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: who acts (I), 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:pg16:17:68
# text = Some like Peter best, and some like Wendy best, but I like her best.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | present | I | Peter's best |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot good=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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