Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 114
But the first who does not behave to Wendy like an English gentleman I will blood him severely.”
Who acts: first · What happens: not behave · To what, where: Wendy
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 behave | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 first | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 behave | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 behave | nsubj |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 behave | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 behave | advmod |
| 7 | behave | behave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Wendy | case |
| 9 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 behave | obl |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 gentleman | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 gentleman | det |
| 12 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gentleman | amod |
| 13 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 behave | obl |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 severely | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 him | aux |
| 16 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 him | nsubj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 I | conj |
| 18 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 13 gentleman | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 behave | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 behave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not behave | present · do-support | the first | Wendy | like a English gentleman | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like gentleman=Attribute |
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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