Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 44

A man of indomitable courage, it was said that the only thing he shied at was the sight of his own blood, which was thick and of an unusual colour.

Who acts: man, only thing, own blood · What happens: say, shy, be · To what, where: man, only thing, sight · Speech: someone speaks here

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, only thing, own blood), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 courage	case
4	indomitable	indomitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 courage	amod
5	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 man	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 man	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	aux:pass
9	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 sight	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 thing	det
12	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thing	amod
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sight	nsubj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 shied	nsubj
15	shied	shy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thing	acl:relcl
16	at	at	ADP	_	15 shied	obl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sight	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sight	det
19	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 blood	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 blood	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 blood	amod
23	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sight	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thick	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 thick	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 thick	cop
27	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 blood	amod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 colour	cc
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 colour	case
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 colour	det
31	unusual	unusual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 colour	amod
32	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 thick	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · passive		a man of indomitable courage		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	shy	past	man	the only thing not said here		tree rules
3	is a	past	the only thing	the sight	of man's own blood	tree rules
4	is	past	man's own blood		thick 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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