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title: Oh yes, twenty times have I made it up round the bed-post, but round… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh yes, twenty times have I made it up round the bed-post, but round my neck, no! Who acts: twenty times, I. 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 67

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Oh yes, twenty times have I made it up round the bed-post, but round my neck, no!

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**Who acts:** twenty times, I · **What happens:** have, make up · **To what, where:** post

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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 (twenty times, 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:pg16:3:67
# text = Oh yes, twenty times have I made it up round the bed-post, but round my neck, no!
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
11	round	round	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	round	round	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
22	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | twenty times |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make up** | past | I | post |  |  |  | round the bed post | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot |

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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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