Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 4

There they await the onslaught, the inexperienced ones clutching their revolvers and treading on twigs, but the old hands sleeping tranquilly until just before the dawn.

Who acts: redskins, inexperienced ones, old hands · What happens: await, clutch, tread, sleep · To what, where: onslaught, revolvers, twigs

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 (redskins, inexperienced ones, old hands), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 await	expl
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 await	nsubj
3	await	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 onslaught	det
5	onslaught	onslaught	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 await	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ones	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ones	det
8	inexperienced	inexperienced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ones	amod
9	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 onslaught	appos
10	clutching	clutch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 ones	acl
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 revolvers	nmod:poss
12	revolvers	revolver	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 clutching	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 treading	cc
14	treading	tread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 clutching	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 twigs	case
16	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 treading	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hands	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 hands	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hands	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hands	amod
21	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 await	obl
22	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 hands	acl
23	tranquilly	tranquilly	ADV	_	22 sleeping	advmod
24	until	until	ADP	_	28 dawn	case
25	just	just	ADV	_	28 dawn	advmod
26	before	before	ADP	_	28 dawn	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dawn	det
28	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 await	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 await	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	await	present	redskins = redskin	the onslaught	there	dawn	the old hands obl	tree rules
2	clutch	gerund	the inexperienced ones not said here	redskins's revolvers				vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revolver=Theme
3	tread	gerund	the inexperienced ones not said here		twigs			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on twig=Trajectory
4	sleep	gerund	the old hands not said here				tranquilly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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