Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 267

But it was now ten minutes since three scoundrels had been breathing behind the curtains, and Peter Pan can do a great deal in ten minutes.

Who acts: street, Peter · What happens: be, breathe, do · To what, where: ten minutes, curtains, great deal

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 (street, Peter), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 minutes	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 minutes	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 minutes	cop
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 minutes	advmod
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 minutes	nummod
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 breathing	obl:unmarked
7	since	since	ADP	_	9 scoundrels	case
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 scoundrels	nummod
9	scoundrels	scoundrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 minutes	nmod
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 breathing	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 breathing	aux
12	breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	behind	behind	ADP	_	15 curtains	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 curtains	det
15	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 breathing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 do	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 do	cc
18	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 do	nsubj
19	Pan	Pan	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Peter	flat
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 do	aux
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 breathing	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 deal	det
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 deal	amod
24	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 do	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 minutes	case
26	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 minutes	nummod
27	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 do	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 breathing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	past	street	ten minutes		since three scoundrels; now	tree rules
2	breathe	past · perfect · progressive			the curtains		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	can	Peter	a great deal		minute	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=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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