Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 20

It could be shut off from the rest of the house by a tiny curtain, which Tink, who was most fastidious, always kept drawn when dressing or undressing.

Who acts: tiny curtain, Tink · What happens: shut off, be, keep, draw, dress, undress · To what, where: recess, rest

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiny curtain, Tink), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shut	nsubj:pass
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 shut	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 shut	aux:pass
4	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 shut	compound:prt
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 rest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rest	det
8	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shut	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rest	nmod
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 curtain	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 curtain	det
14	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 curtain	amod
15	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shut	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Tink	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 Tink	nsubj
18	Tink	Tink	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 curtain	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fastidious	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 fastidious	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 fastidious	cop
22	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	23 fastidious	advmod
23	fastidious	fastidious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Tink	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 kept	punct
25	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	26 kept	advmod
26	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 fastidious	conj
27	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 kept	xcomp
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 dressing	advmod
29	dressing	dress	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 drawn	advcl
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 undressing	cc
31	undressing	undress	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 dressing	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shut off	could · passive	a tiny curtain	recess	the rest of the house		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	is	past	Tink			fastidious property	tree rules
3	keep	participle	Tink not said here			always property	tree rules
4	draw	participle	Tink not said here				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	dress	gerund	Tink not said here				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	undress	gerund	Tink not said here				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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