Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 40

In person he was cadaverous and blackavized, and his hair was dressed in long curls, which at a little distance looked like black candles, and gave a singularly threatening expression to his handsome countenance.

Who acts: man, long curls · What happens: be, dress, look, give, threaten · To what, where: hair, long curls, singularly, expression

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 (man, long curls), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 person	case
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cadaverous	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cadaverous	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cadaverous	cop
5	cadaverous	cadaverous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 blackavized	cc
7	blackavized	blackavized	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cadaverous	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dressed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dressed	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hair	nmod:poss
11	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dressed	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dressed	aux:pass
13	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cadaverous	parataxis
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 curls	case
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 curls	amod
16	curls	curl	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 dressed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 looked	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 looked	nsubj
19	at	at	ADP	_	22 distance	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 distance	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 distance	amod
22	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 looked	obl
23	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 curls	acl:relcl
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 candles	case
25	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 candles	amod
26	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 looked	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 gave	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 gave	cc
29	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cadaverous	parataxis
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 singularly	det
31	singularly	singularly	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gave	obj
32	threatening	threaten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 gave	advcl
33	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 threatening	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 countenance	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 countenance	nmod:poss
36	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 countenance	amod
37	countenance	countenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 threatening	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cadaverous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	man			in person; cadaverous property	tree rules
2	be		man not said here				tree rules
3	dress	past · passive		man's hair	long curls		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	look	past	long curls			at a little distance; like black candles	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at distance=Theme
5	give	past		a singularly			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent singularly=Theme
6	threaten	gerund		expression		to man's handsome countenance	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus expression=Experiencer

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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