Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 193

They were already the only persons in the street, and all the stars were watching them.

Who acts: lights, stars · What happens: be, watch · To what, where: only persons, street, lights

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 (lights, stars), 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 persons	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 persons	cop
3	already	already	ADV	_	6 persons	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 persons	det
5	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 persons	amod
6	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 street	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 street	det
9	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 persons	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 watching	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 watching	cc
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 stars	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stars	det
14	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 watching	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 watching	aux
16	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 persons	parataxis
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 watching	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 persons	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	lights = light	the only persons		the street			tree rules
2	watch	past · progressive	all stars	lights = light					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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