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title: “If only I had pretended to like the medicine,” was what Nana’s wet… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “If only I had pretended to like the medicine,” was what Nana’s wet eyes said. Who acts: wet eyes. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 23

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“If only I had pretended to like the medicine,” was what Nana’s wet eyes said.

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**Who acts:** wet eyes · **What happens:** pretend, like, be, say · **To what, where:** medicine · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wet eyes), 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:pg16:3:23
# text = “If only I had pretended to like the medicine,” was what Nana’s wet eyes said.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
15	Nana	Nana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · perfect | wet eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **like** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | wet eyes *= eye* *not said here* | the medicine |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot medicine=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | wet eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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