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title: Of course I could do it again, and make it best out of three; howeve… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course I could do it again, and make it best out of three; however, perhaps fairest to stick to the lagoon. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 89

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Of course I could do it again, and make it best out of three; however, perhaps fairest to stick to the lagoon.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** make, stick · **To what, where:** course

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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 (you), 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:pg16:8:89
# text = Of course I could do it again, and make it best out of three; however, perhaps fairest to stick to the lagoon.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	5	advmod	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	obj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	however	however	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	fairest	fair	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	stick	stick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | course |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary good=Product |
| 2 | **stick** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the lagoon | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to lagoon=Co-Patient |

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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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