Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 53

On the trail of the pirates, stealing noiselessly down the war-path, which is not visible to inexperienced eyes, come the redskins, every one of them with his eyes peeled.

Who acts: war path, eyes · What happens: steal, not be, come, peel · To what, where: trail, redskins

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (war path, eyes), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 trail	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trail	det
3	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stealing	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 pirates	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pirates	det
6	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trail	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stealing	punct
8	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	noiselessly	noiselessly	ADV	_	8 stealing	advmod
10	down	down	ADP	_	14 path	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 path	det
12	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 path	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 war	punct
14	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stealing	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 visible	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 visible	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 visible	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 visible	advmod
19	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 path	amod
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 eyes	case
21	inexperienced	inexperienced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 eyes	amod
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 visible	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 come	punct
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 stealing	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 redskins	det
26	redskins	redskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 come	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 one	punct
28	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stealing	parataxis
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 one	nmod
32	with	with	SCONJ	_	35 peeled	mark
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 eyes	nmod:poss
34	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 peeled	nsubj
35	peeled	peel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 one	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stealing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	steal	gerund			the trail of the pirates	down the war path; noiselessly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on trail=Location
2	not is	present	the war path			to inexperienced eyes; visible property	tree rules
3	come	infinitive		the redskins			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location redskin=Theme
4	peel	past	man's eyes				vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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