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title: Smee had pleasant names for everything, and his cutlass was Johnny C… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Smee had pleasant names for everything, and his cutlass was Johnny Corkscrew, because he wiggled it in the wound. Who acts: Smee, cutlass. 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 102

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Smee had pleasant names for everything, and his cutlass was Johnny Corkscrew, because he wiggled it in the wound.

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**Who acts:** Smee, cutlass · **What happens:** have, be, wiggle · **To what, where:** pleasant names, Johnny, cutlass

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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: who acts (Smee, cutlass), 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:pg16:6:102
# text = Smee had pleasant names for everything, and his cutlass was Johnny Corkscrew, because he wiggled it in the wound.
1	Smee	Smee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	cutlass	cutlass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	Corkscrew	Corkscrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	wiggled	wiggle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Smee | pleasant names |  |  |  | for everything | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Smee's cutlass | Johnny |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wiggle** | past | Smee | cutlass |  |  |  | in the wound | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Patient in wound=Topic |

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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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