Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 40

He was so much the humblest of them, indeed he was the only humble one, that Wendy was specially gentle with him.

Who acts: John, Wendy · What happens: be · To what, where: only humble one

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, Wendy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 humblest	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 humblest	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	6 humblest	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 humblest	det
6	humblest	humble	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 humblest	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 one	punct
10	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	16 one	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 one	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 one	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 one	det
14	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 one	amod
15	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 one	amod
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 humblest	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gentle	punct
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 gentle	mark
19	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 gentle	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 gentle	cop
21	specially	specially	ADV	_	22 gentle	advmod
22	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 one	amod
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gentle	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 humblest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	John		of Tootles = tootle; humble property	tree rules
2	is a	past	John	the only humble one	indeed property	tree rules
3	is	past	Wendy		with John; gentle, specially property	tree rules

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.

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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