to pull the strings (control behind the scenes) / to create strands / to draw a line

a thing, occasion, circumstances, detail, particular / act of (word used for the nominalization of verbs, adjectives, or phrases)

entirely; all

everything, all

a controller (an electronic or mechanical device to control a device or system) / (sciences) an experimental control; a member of a control group

to control (something), manage

to pull the strings (control behind the scenes) from the shadows

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

back; behind; other side / inside / reverse side of a coin ("tails") / (baseball) bottom (of an inning)

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend