Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 309

They ran into the middle of the street to look up at the nursery window; and, yes, it was still shut, but the room was ablaze with light, and most heart-gripping sight of all, they could see in shadow on the curtain three little figures in night attire circling round and round, not on the floor but in the air.

Who acts: pirates, hat, room, most, night attire · What happens: run, look up, be, grip, see, circle · To what, where: middle, sight, three little figures, shadow, floor

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 (pirates, hat, room, most), 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	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 middle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 middle	det
5	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 street	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 street	det
8	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 middle	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 look	mark
10	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ran	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 look	compound:prt
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 window	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 window	det
14	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 window	compound
15	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 look	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 shut	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 shut	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 and	punct
19	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	24 shut	discourse
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 yes	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 shut	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 shut	cop
23	still	still	ADV	_	24 shut	advmod
24	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ran	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ablaze	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 ablaze	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 room	det
28	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ablaze	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ablaze	cop
30	ablaze	ablaze	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 shut	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 light	case
32	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ablaze	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 gripping	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 gripping	cc
35	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 gripping	nsubj
36	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 gripping	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 heart	punct
38	gripping	grip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 ran	advcl
39	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 gripping	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 all	case
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 sight	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 see	punct
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 see	nsubj
44	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 see	aux
45	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ran	conj
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 shadow	case
47	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 see	obl
48	on	on	ADP	_	50 curtain	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 curtain	det
50	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 see	obl
51	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 figures	nummod
52	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 figures	amod
53	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 see	obj
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 attire	case
55	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 attire	compound
56	attire	attire	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 figures	nmod
57	circling	circle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	56 attire	acl
58	round	round	ADV	_	57 circling	advmod
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 round	cc
60	round	round	ADV	_	58 round	conj
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 floor	punct
62	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	65 floor	advmod
63	on	on	ADP	_	65 floor	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 floor	det
65	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 circling	obl
66	but	but	CCONJ	_	69 air	cc
67	in	in	ADP	_	69 air	case
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 air	det
69	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 floor	conj
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	pirates = pirate				into the middle of the street result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into middle=Result
2	look up	to-infinitive	pirates = pirate not said here				at the nursery window	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at window=Theme
3	is	past	hat			still	shut property	tree rules
4	is	past	the room				with light; ablaze property	tree rules
5	grip	gerund	most	sight of all				vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Experiencer
6	see	could	pirates = pirate	three little figures	shadow		on the curtain; in night attire	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus
7	circle	gerund	night attire not said here		the floor but the air		round property	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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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