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title: Curly is fourth; he is a pickle, and so often has he had to deliver… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Curly is fourth; he is a pickle, and so often has he had to deliver up his person when Peter said sternly, “Stand forth the one who did this thing,” that now at the command he stands forth automatically whether he has done it or not. Who acts: Curly, Peter, one, that. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 25

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Curly is fourth; he is a pickle, and so often has he had to deliver up his person when Peter said sternly, “Stand forth the one who did this thing,” that now at the command he stands forth automatically whether he has done it or not.

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**Who acts:** Curly, Peter, one, that · **What happens:** be, have, deliver up, say, stand, do · **To what, where:** pickle, person, one, thing, command · **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 (Curly, Peter, one, that), 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:pg16:6:25
# text = Curly is fourth; he is a pickle, and so often has he had to deliver up his person when Peter said sternly, “Stand forth the one who did this thing,” that now at the command he stands forth automatically whether he has done it or not.
1	Curly	Curly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pickle	pickle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
22	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
24	sternly	sternly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
28	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
37	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
38	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	43	advmod	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
44	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
45	automatically	automatically	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
46	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	43	advcl	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	_
51	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Curly |  |  |  |  | fourth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Curly | a pickle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | Curly |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **deliver up** | to-infinitive | Curly *not said here* | Curly's person |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Peter |  |  |  |  | sternly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **stand** *in a quote* | infinitive | Curly *not said here* | the one |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 8 | **do** *in a quote* | past | the one | this thing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 9 | **stand** | present | that |  |  | the command | now | automatically, forth *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at command=Location |
| 10 | **do** | present · perfect | Peter | person |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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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