Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 185

They were crowding round the house, as if curious to see what was to take place there, but she did not notice this, nor that one or two of the smaller ones winked at her.

Who acts: John, Mrs., one · What happens: crowd, see, take, not notice, wink · To what, where: house, place, this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, Mrs., one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg16:343): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

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	3 crowding	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crowding	aux
3	crowding	crowd	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	round	round	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crowding	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 curious	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 curious	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 curious	mark
10	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crowding	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 curious	xcomp
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 take	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 take	aux
15	to	to	PART	_	16 take	mark
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 see	ccomp
17	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obj
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 take	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 notice	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 notice	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 notice	nsubj
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 notice	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 notice	advmod
24	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 crowding	conj
25	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 notice	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 winked	punct
27	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	36 winked	cc
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 winked	mark
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 winked	nsubj
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 two	cc
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 one	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 ones	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 ones	det
34	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 ones	amod
35	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 one	nmod
36	winked	wink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 this	conj
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 her	case
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 winked	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 crowding	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	crowd	past · progressive	John		the house		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round house=Destination
2	see	to-infinitive	John not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	take	past		place	there		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
4	not notice	past · do-support	Mrs.	this			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
5	wink	past	one of the smaller ones			at Mrs.	vn wink-40.3.1 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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