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title: She is the most beautiful of dusky Dianas and the belle of the Picca… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. TH
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# Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 58

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg16:6:58
# text = 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.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	dusky	dusky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Dianas	Diana	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	belle	belle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Piccaninnies	piccaninny	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	coquettish	coquettish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	amorous	amorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	turns	turn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	wayward	wayward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	staves	stave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
42	off	off	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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