Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 41

Fain would his dogs have known, as breathing heavily and wiping their cutlasses, they gathered at a discreet distance from his hook, and squinted through their ferret eyes at this extraordinary man.

Who acts: dogs · What happens: know, breathe, wipe, gather, squint · To what, where: Fain, cutlasses

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 (dogs), 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	Fain	Fain	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 known	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 known	aux
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dogs	nmod:poss
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 known	nsubj:pass
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 known	aux
6	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 breathing	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 breathing	mark
9	breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 known	conj
10	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	9 breathing	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wiping	cc
12	wiping	wipe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 breathing	conj
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 cutlasses	nmod:poss
14	cutlasses	cutlass	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wiping	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gathered	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gathered	nsubj
17	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 known	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	21 distance	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 distance	det
20	discreet	discreet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 distance	amod
21	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gathered	obl
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 hook	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hook	nmod:poss
24	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 distance	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 squinted	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 squinted	cc
27	squinted	squint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 known	conj
28	through	through	ADP	_	31 eyes	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 eyes	nmod:poss
30	ferret	ferret	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 eyes	compound
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 squinted	obl
32	at	at	ADP	_	35 man	case
33	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 man	det
34	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 man	amod
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 squinted	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 known	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	would · perfect · passive		Fain		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	breathe	gerund			heavily property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wipe	gerund		dogs's cutlasses		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent cutlass=Source
4	gather	past	dogs = dog		at a discreet distance from Fain's hook	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	squint	participle			at this extraordinary man; through dogs's ferret eyes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through eye=Theme

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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