Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 16

This ill-luck had given a gentle melancholy to his countenance, but instead of souring his nature had sweetened it, so that he was quite the humblest of the boys.

Who acts: Neverland · What happens: give, sour, sweeten, be · To what, where: ill luck, nature

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 (Neverland), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 luck	det
2	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 luck	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 ill	punct
4	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 given	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 given	aux
6	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 melancholy	det
8	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 melancholy	amod
9	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 given	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 countenance	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 countenance	nmod:poss
12	countenance	countenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 melancholy	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sweetened	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 sweetened	cc
15	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 souring	mark
16	of	of	ADP	_	15 instead	fixed
17	souring	sour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 sweetened	advcl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 nature	nmod:poss
19	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 souring	obj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sweetened	aux
21	sweetened	sweeten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 given	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sweetened	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 humblest	punct
24	so	so	SCONJ	_	30 humblest	case
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 so	fixed
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 humblest	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 humblest	cop
28	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	30 humblest	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 humblest	det
30	humblest	humble	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 given	parataxis
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 boys	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 boys	det
33	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 humblest	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	past · perfect · passive		this ill luck		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient melancholy=Theme
2	sour	gerund		Neverland's nature		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent nature=Patient
3	sweeten	past · perfect		nature		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	is	past	Neverland		of the boys; humble 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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