Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 16

Everything being thus mapped out with almost diabolical cunning, the main body of the redskins folded their blankets around them, and in the phlegmatic manner that is to them, the pearl of manhood squatted above the children’s home, awaiting the cold moment when they should deal pale death.

Who acts: Everything, that, Piccaninnies, manhood · What happens: map out, fold, be, squat, await, deal · To what, where: blankets, phlegmatic manner, manhood, home, pale death

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 (Everything, that, Piccaninnies, manhood), 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	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 folded	nsubj
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 mapped	aux:pass
3	thus	thus	ADV	_	4 mapped	advmod
4	mapped	map	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Everything	acl:relcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 mapped	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 cunning	case
7	almost	almost	ADV	_	8 diabolical	advmod
8	diabolical	diabolical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cunning	amod
9	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mapped	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 body	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 body	det
12	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 body	amod
13	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cunning	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 redskins	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 redskins	det
16	redskins	redskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 body	nmod
17	folded	fold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 blankets	nmod:poss
19	blankets	blanket	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 folded	obj
20	around	around	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 folded	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 manner	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 manner	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 manner	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 manner	det
26	phlegmatic	phlegmatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 manner	amod
27	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 folded	obl
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 them	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 them	cop
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 manner	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 pearl	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 pearl	det
34	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 manner	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 manhood	case
36	manhood	manhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pearl	nmod
37	squatted	squat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 manhood	acl
38	above	above	ADP	_	42 home	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 children	det
40	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 home	nmod:poss
41	’s	's	PART	_	40 children	case
42	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 squatted	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 awaiting	punct
44	awaiting	await	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 pearl	conj
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 moment	det
46	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 moment	amod
47	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 awaiting	obj
48	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	51 deal	advmod
49	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 deal	nsubj
50	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 deal	aux
51	deal	deal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 awaiting	advcl
52	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 death	amod
53	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 deal	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 folded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	map out	gerund · passive					with diabolical cunning and the main body of the redskins; thus property	tree rules
2	fold	past	Everything	Piccaninnies's blankets	the phlegmatic manner and the pearl of manhood		around Piccaninnies = piccaninny	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent blanket=Patient
3	is	present	that				to Piccaninnies = piccaninny	tree rules
4	squat	participle		manhood not said here	the children's home			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above home=Location
5	await	gerund	Everything not said here			moment		tree rules
6	deal	should	Piccaninnies = piccaninny	pale death				vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme
7	pearl		manhood					nom pearl «possession intransitive»: of=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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