Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 58

She is the most beautiful of dusky Dianas and the belle of the Piccaninnies, coquettish, cold and amorous by turns; there is not a brave who would not have the wayward thing to wife, but she staves off the altar with a hatchet.

Who acts: Lily · What happens: be, not have, stave off · To what, where: wayward thing, altar

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 (Lily), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 beautiful	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 beautiful	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 beautiful	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 beautiful	advmod
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Dianas	case
7	dusky	dusky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Dianas	amod
8	Dianas	Diana	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 beautiful	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 belle	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 belle	det
11	belle	belle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Dianas	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Piccaninnies	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Piccaninnies	det
14	Piccaninnies	piccaninny	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 belle	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 coquettish	punct
16	coquettish	coquettish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Piccaninnies	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cold	punct
18	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 coquettish	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 amorous	cc
20	amorous	amorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 coquettish	conj
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 turns	case
22	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 amorous	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 is	punct
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 is	expl
25	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 beautiful	conj
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 brave	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 brave	det
28	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 is	xcomp
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 have	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 have	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 have	advmod
32	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 brave	ccomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 thing	det
34	wayward	wayward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 thing	amod
35	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 have	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 wife	mark
37	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 thing	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 staves	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 staves	cc
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 staves	nsubj
41	staves	stave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 beautiful	conj
42	off	off	ADP	_	44 altar	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 altar	det
44	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 staves	obl
45	with	with	ADP	_	47 hatchet	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 hatchet	det
47	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 staves	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 beautiful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Lily			of dusky Dianas and the belle of the Piccaninnies; beautiful property	tree rules
2	be	present	Lily not said here		there	brave property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not have	would		the wayward thing wife			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
4	stave off	present	Lily	the altar		with a hatchet	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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