Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 197

They are not really friendly to Peter, who had a mischievous way of stealing up behind them and trying to blow them out; but they are so fond of fun that they were on his side to-night, and anxious to get the grown-ups out of the way.

Who acts: lights, Peter, mischievous way · What happens: not be, have, steal up, try, blow out, be · To what, where: Peter, mischievous way, lights, side, grown ups, way

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, Peter, mischievous way), 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	5 friendly	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 friendly	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 friendly	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 friendly	advmod
5	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Peter	case
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 friendly	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Peter	acl:relcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 way	det
12	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 way	amod
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 stealing	mark
15	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 way	acl
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 stealing	compound:prt
17	behind	behind	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stealing	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 trying	cc
20	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 stealing	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 blow	mark
22	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 trying	xcomp
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 blow	obj
24	out	out	ADP	_	22 blow	compound:prt
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 fond	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 fond	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 fond	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 fond	cop
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 fond	advmod
30	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 friendly	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 fun	case
32	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fond	obl
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 side	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 side	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 side	cop
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 side	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 side	nmod:poss
38	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fun	nmod
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 night	case
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 to	punct
41	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 side	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 anxious	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 anxious	cc
44	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 friendly	conj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 get	mark
46	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 anxious	xcomp
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 ups	det
48	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 ups	amod
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 grown	punct
50	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 get	obj
51	out	out	ADP	_	54 way	case
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 way	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 way	det
54	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 get	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 friendly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	lights = light		Peter			friendly property	tree rules
2	have	past	Peter	a mischievous way					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
3	steal up	gerund	a mischievous way not said here					behind lights = light	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind they=Location
4	try	gerund	a mischievous way not said here						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	blow out not said to happen	to-infinitive	a mischievous way not said here	lights = light					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	is	present	lights = light					of fun; fond property	tree rules
7	is	past	lights = light			father's side	night		tree rules
8	be		lights = light not said here						tree rules
9	get	to-infinitive	lights = light not said here	the grown ups		the way			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer up=Stimulus
10	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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