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title: One cannot at least withhold a reluctant admiration for the wit that… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: One cannot at least withhold a reluctant admiration for the wit that had conceived so bold a scheme, and the fell genius with which it was carried out. Who acts: One, wit. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 39

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One cannot at least withhold a reluctant admiration for the wit that had conceived so bold a scheme, and the fell genius with which it was carried out.

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**Who acts:** One, wit · **What happens:** not withhold, conceive, fall, carry out · **To what, where:** reluctant admiration, least, scheme, genius

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, wit), 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:pg16:13:39
# text = One cannot at least withhold a reluctant admiration for the wit that had conceived so bold a scheme, and the fell genius with which it was carried out.
1	One	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	obl	_	_
6	withhold	withhold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	reluctant	reluctant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wit	wit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	conceived	conceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	scheme	scheme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
24	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	parataxis	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **withhold** | can | One | a reluctant admiration |  | least |  | for the wit | tree rules |
| 2 | **conceive** | past · perfect | the wit | a scheme |  |  |  | bold *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scheme=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past | One *not said here* | genius |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient genius=Result |
| 4 | **carry out** | past · passive |  | genius |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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