Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 19

What could the bewildered scouts do, masters as they were of every war-like artifice save this one, but trot helplessly after him, exposing themselves fatally to view, while they gave pathetic utterance to the coyote cry.

Who acts: bewildered scouts, scouts, masters, exposing · What happens: bewilder, do, be, save, trot, expose · To what, where: masters, one, scouts, pathetic utterance, coyote cry

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 (bewildered scouts, scouts, masters, exposing), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 scouts	det
4	bewildered	bewilder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 scouts	amod
5	scouts	scout	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 save	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 masters	punct
8	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 save	nsubj
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 artifice	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 artifice	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 artifice	cop
12	of	of	ADP	_	17 artifice	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 artifice	det
14	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 like	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 war	punct
16	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 artifice	amod
17	artifice	artifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 masters	acl
18	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 save	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 trot	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 trot	cc
23	trot	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 save	conj
24	helplessly	helplessly	ADV	_	23 trot	advmod
25	after	after	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 trot	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 exposing	punct
28	exposing	expose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 view	csubj
29	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 exposing	obj
30	fatally	fatally	ADV	_	32 view	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 view	mark
32	view	view	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 save	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 gave	punct
34	while	while	SCONJ	_	36 gave	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 gave	nsubj
36	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 view	conj
37	pathetic	pathetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 utterance	amod
38	utterance	utterance	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gave	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	42 cry	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 cry	det
41	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 cry	compound
42	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gave	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 save	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bewilder	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	do	could	the bewildered scouts					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	is	past	scouts = scout	masters not said here			of every like artifice	tree rules
4	save	present	masters	this one				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
5	trot	present	masters not said here			after Hook	helplessly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	expose	gerund		scouts = scout				vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=Topic
7	view	to-infinitive	exposing				fatally property	vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
8	give	past	scouts = scout	pathetic utterance	the coyote cry			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent utterance=Theme to cry=Recipient

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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