Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 3

All night they sat above, keeping watch over the home under the ground and awaiting the big attack by the pirates which obviously could not be much longer delayed.

Who acts: braves, pirates · What happens: sit, keep, await, not be · To what, where: watch, home, big attack

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 (braves, pirates), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	above	above	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 keeping	punct
7	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sat	advcl
8	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keeping	obj
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 home	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 home	det
11	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keeping	obl
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 ground	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ground	det
14	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keeping	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 awaiting	cc
16	awaiting	await	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 keeping	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 attack	det
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 attack	amod
19	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 awaiting	obj
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 pirates	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pirates	det
22	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 awaiting	obl
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 delayed	nsubj
24	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	30 delayed	advmod
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 delayed	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 delayed	advmod
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 delayed	cop
28	much	much	ADV	_	29 longer	advmod
29	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 delayed	advmod
30	delayed	delayed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pirates	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	braves = brave			night	above property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	gerund	braves = brave not said here	watch	the home		under the ground	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme over home=Location
3	await	gerund	braves = brave not said here	the big attack			by the pirates	tree rules
4	not is	could	the pirates				delayed, long, obviously property	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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