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title: Of course the only boy who replied to every question was Slightly, a… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course the only boy who replied to every question was Slightly, and no one could have been more hopeful of coming out first, but his answers were perfectly ridiculous, and he really came out last: a melancholy thing. Who acts: one, answers, number. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapt
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 53

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Of course the only boy who replied to every question was Slightly, and no one could have been more hopeful of coming out first, but his answers were perfectly ridiculous, and he really came out last: a melancholy thing.

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**Who acts:** one, answers, number · **What happens:** reply, be, come out, answer

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, answers, number), 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:pg16:8:53
# text = Of course the only boy who replied to every question was Slightly, and no one could have been more hopeful of coming out first, but his answers were perfectly ridiculous, and he really came out last: a melancholy thing.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	Slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
21	hopeful	hopeful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
22	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
24	out	out	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	answers	answer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	really	really	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
38	out	out	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | of the only boy | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to every question; slightly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | could · perfect | no one |  |  |  |  | hopeful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come out** | gerund | no one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first, out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | number's answers |  |  |  |  | perfectly, ridiculous *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **come out** | past | number |  |  |  |  | last, out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **answer** |  | number |  |  |  |  |  | nom answer «communication transitive»: 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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