Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 248
They were really doing it artfully from behind the window curtains.
Who acts: inmates · What happens: do · To what, where: self, window curtains
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inmates), 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 | 4 doing | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 doing | aux |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 doing | advmod |
| 4 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 doing | obj |
| 6 | artfully | artfully | ADV | _ | 4 doing | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 curtains | case |
| 8 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 11 curtains | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 curtains | det |
| 10 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 curtains | compound |
| 11 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 doing | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 doing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · progressive | inmates = inmate | self | the window curtains | artfully property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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