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title: “Shall I after him, Captain,” asked pathetic Smee, “and tickle him w… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Shall I after him, Captain,” asked pathetic Smee, “and tickle him with Johnny Corkscrew?” A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 101

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“Shall I after him, Captain,” asked pathetic Smee, “and tickle him with Johnny Corkscrew?”

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**What happens:** ask, tickle · **To what, where:** pathetic Smee, Smee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. 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:pg16:6:101
# text = “Shall I after him, Captain,” asked pathetic Smee, “and tickle him with Johnny Corkscrew?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	pathetic	pathetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Smee	Smee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	tickle	tickle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Corkscrew	Corkscrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | pathetic Smee |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent smee=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **tickle** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Smee |  |  |  | with Johnny Corkscrew | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer with corkscrew=Instrument |

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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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