Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 74

Donning his hat at its most rakish angle, he wound his cloak around him, holding one end in front as if to conceal his person from the night, of which it was the blackest part, and muttering strangely to himself, stole away through the trees.

Who acts: look, person · What happens: don, woun, hold, conceal, be, mutter · To what, where: hat, rakish angle, cloak, one end, front, person

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (look, person), 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	Donning	don	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 wound	advcl
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hat	nmod:poss
3	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Donning	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	8 angle	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 angle	nmod:poss
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 rakish	advmod
7	rakish	rakish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 angle	amod
8	angle	angle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Donning	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Donning	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wound	nsubj
11	wound	woun	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cloak	nmod:poss
13	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wound	obj
14	around	around	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wound	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 holding	punct
17	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 wound	advcl
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 end	nummod
19	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 holding	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 front	case
21	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 holding	obl
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 conceal	mark
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 conceal	mark
24	to	to	PART	_	25 conceal	mark
25	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 holding	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 person	nmod:poss
27	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 conceal	obj
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 night	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 night	det
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 conceal	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 part	punct
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 which	case
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 part	obl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 part	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 part	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 part	det
37	blackest	black	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 part	amod
38	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 conceal	advcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 stole	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 stole	cc
41	muttering	mutter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 stole	advcl
42	strangely	strangely	ADV	_	41 muttering	advmod
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 himself	case
44	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 muttering	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 muttering	punct
46	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 wound	conj
47	away	away	ADV	_	46 stole	advmod
48	through	through	ADP	_	50 trees	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 trees	det
50	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 stole	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 wound	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	don	gerund	look not said here	look's hat		hat's rakish angle			vn simple_dressing-41.3.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme
2	woun	past	look	look's cloak				around Hook	tree rules
3	hold	gerund	look not said here	one end		front			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent end=Theme in front=Location
4	conceal	to-infinitive	look not said here	look's person			night		vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient
5	is a	past	person	the blackest part					tree rules
6	mutter speech: assert	gerund			look			strangely property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
7	steal away	past	look not said here			the trees		away property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tree=Location

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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