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title: “It’s the wickedest, prettiest policy ever I heard of!” he cried, an… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “It’s the wickedest, prettiest policy ever I heard of!” he cried, and in their exultation they danced and sang: Who acts: admiration, I, boys. 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 165

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“It’s the wickedest, prettiest policy ever I heard of!” he cried, and in their exultation they danced and sang:

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**Who acts:** admiration, I, boys · **What happens:** be, hear, cry, dance, sing, exult · **To what, where:** prettiest policy, exultation · **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: who acts (admiration, I, boys), 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:pg16:6:165
# text = “It’s the wickedest, prettiest policy ever I heard of!” he cried, and in their exultation they danced and sang:
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wickedest	wicked	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	policy	policy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	exultation	exultation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | admiration |  |  |  |  | wicked *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** *in a quote* | past | I | prettiest policy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer policy=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dance** | past | boys *= boy* |  |  | boys's exultation |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in exultation=Location |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | boys *= boy* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **exult** |  | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  |  | nom exultation «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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