Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 2

They all donned pirate clothes cut off at the knee, shaved smartly, and tumbled up, with the true nautical roll and hitching their trousers.

Who acts: bells · What happens: don, cut off, shave, tumble up, hitch · To what, where: knee, trousers

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bells), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cut	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 clothes	det
3	donned	don	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 clothes	amod
4	pirate	pirate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clothes	compound
5	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 cut	nsubj
6	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 cut	compound:prt
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 knee	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 knee	det
10	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shaved	punct
12	shaved	shave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cut	conj
13	smartly	smartly	ADV	_	12 shaved	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tumbled	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tumbled	cc
16	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 shaved	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 tumbled	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 roll	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	23 roll	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 roll	det
21	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 roll	amod
22	nautical	nautical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 roll	amod
23	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tumbled	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 hitching	cc
25	hitching	hitch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 roll	conj
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 trousers	nmod:poss
27	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hitching	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	don	participle					vn simple_dressing-41.3.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	cut off	present	bells = bell		the knee		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	shave	participle	bells = bell not said here			smartly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tumble up	participle	bells = bell not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	hitch	gerund	bells = bell not said here	bells's trousers			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trousers=Patient

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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