Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 43

He was never more sinister than when he was most polite, which is probably the truest test of breeding; and the elegance of his diction, even when he was swearing, no less than the distinction of his demeanour, showed him one of a different cast from his crew.

Who acts: man, more sinister · What happens: not be, be, swear, show, distinguish · To what, where: more sinister, truest test, one, man, demeanour

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, more sinister), 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	5 sinister	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sinister	cop
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 sinister	advmod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 sinister	amod
5	sinister	sinister	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 showed	nsubj
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 polite	mark
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 polite	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 polite	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 polite	cop
10	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 polite	advmod
11	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sinister	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 test	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 test	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 test	cop
15	probably	probably	ADV	_	18 test	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 test	det
17	truest	true	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 test	amod
18	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sinister	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 breeding	case
20	breeding	breeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 test	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 elegance	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 elegance	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 elegance	det
24	elegance	elegance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sinister	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 diction	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 diction	nmod:poss
27	diction	diction	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 elegance	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 swearing	punct
29	even	even	ADV	_	33 swearing	advmod
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 swearing	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 swearing	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 swearing	aux
33	swearing	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 elegance	appos
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 less	punct
35	no	no	ADV	_	36 less	advmod
36	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 swearing	advmod
37	than	than	ADP	_	39 distinction	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 distinction	det
39	distinction	distinction	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 less	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 demeanour	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 demeanour	nmod:poss
42	demeanour	demeanour	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 distinction	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sinister	punct
44	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 showed	iobj
46	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 showed	obj
47	of	of	ADP	_	50 cast	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 cast	det
49	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 cast	amod
50	cast	cast	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 one	nmod
51	from	from	ADP	_	53 crew	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 crew	nmod:poss
53	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 cast	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	44 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	man	more sinister and the truest test and the elegance of man's diction			tree rules
2	is	past	man			polite property	tree rules
3	is a	present	more sinister and the truest test and the elegance of man's diction	the truest test		of breeding; probably property	tree rules
4	swear	past · progressive	man				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	show	past	more sinister and the truest test and the elegance of man's diction	one of a different cast from man's crew	man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient one=Topic
6	distinguish			man's demeanour			nom distinction «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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