Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 141

Such a deliciously creepy song it was, in which they pretended to be frightened at their own shadows, little witting that so soon shadows would close in upon them, from whom they would shrink in real fear.

Who acts: redskins, little witting · What happens: pretend, frighten, close in, shrink, shadow · To what, where: creepy song, own shadows, real fear

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (redskins, little witting), 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	Such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	5 song	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 song	det
3	deliciously	deliciously	ADV	_	4 creepy	advmod
4	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 song	amod
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 was	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 song	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pretended	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 pretended	obl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pretended	nsubj
12	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 song	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	15 frightened	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 frightened	aux:pass
15	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 pretended	ccomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 shadows	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 shadows	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 shadows	amod
19	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 frightened	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 witting	punct
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 witting	amod
22	witting	witting	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shadows	appos
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 close	nsubj
24	so	so	ADV	_	28 close	advmod
25	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 close	advmod
26	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 close	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 close	aux
28	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 witting	acl:relcl
29	in	in	ADV	_	28 close	advmod
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 close	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 shrink	punct
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 whom	case
34	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 shrink	obl
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 shrink	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 shrink	aux
37	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 frightened	parataxis
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 fear	case
39	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 fear	amod
40	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 shrink	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 song	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	redskins = redskin	such creepy song		tree rules
2	frighten	to-infinitive · passive	redskins = redskin not said here	redskins's own shadows		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	close in	would	little witting		upon redskins = redskin; soon property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	shrink	would	redskins = redskin	real fear		vn flinch-40.5 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from whom=Stimulus
5	shadow		redskins = redskin			nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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