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title: But the first who does not behave to Wendy like an English gentleman… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: But the first who does not behave to Wendy like an English gentleman I will blood him severely.” Who acts: first. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 114

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But the first who does not behave to Wendy like an English gentleman I will blood him severely.”

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**Who acts:** first · **What happens:** not behave · **To what, where:** Wendy

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg16:12:114
# text = But the first who does not behave to Wendy like an English gentleman I will blood him severely.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	behave	behave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	conj	_	_
18	severely	severely	ADV	RB	_	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **behave** | present · do-support | the first |  | Wendy |  |  | like a English gentleman | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like gentleman=Attribute |

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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.

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**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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