Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 97

“Ah, old lady,” Peter said aside to Wendy, warming himself by the fire and looking down at her as she sat turning a heel, “there is nothing more pleasant of an evening for you and me when the day’s toil is over than to rest by the fire with the little ones near by.”

Who acts: old lady, lady, nothing, toil, day · What happens: say, warm, look down, sit, turn, be · To what, where: Wendy, heel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old lady, lady, nothing, toil), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 lady	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lady	amod
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lady	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 lady	punct
8	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lady	appos
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	aside	aside	ADV	_	9 said	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Wendy	case
12	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 warming	punct
14	warming	warm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 sat	advcl
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 warming	obj
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 fire	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fire	det
18	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 warming	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 looking	cc
20	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 sat	advcl
21	down	down	ADV	_	20 looking	advmod
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 looking	obl
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 sat	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sat	nsubj
26	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
27	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 sat	advcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 heel	det
29	heel	heel	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 turning	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 is	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	33 is	punct
32	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	33 is	expl
33	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 turning	advcl
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	33 is	nsubj
35	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 pleasant	advmod
36	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 nothing	amod
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 evening	case
38	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 evening	det
39	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pleasant	obl
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 you	case
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 evening	nmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 me	cc
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 sat	conj
44	when	when	SCONJ	_	50 over	mark
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 day	det
46	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 toil	nmod:poss
47	’s	's	PART	_	46 day	case
48	toil	toil	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 over	nsubj
49	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 over	cop
50	over	over	ADV	_	26 sat	ccomp
51	than	than	ADP	_	50 over	fixed
52	to	to	PART	_	53 rest	mark
53	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 sat	advcl
54	by	by	ADP	_	56 fire	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 fire	det
56	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 rest	obl
57	with	with	ADP	_	60 ones	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 ones	det
59	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 ones	amod
60	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 rest	obl
61	near	near	ADV	_	60 ones	advmod
62	by	by	ADP	_	61 near	fixed
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
64	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	old lady		Wendy		aside property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wendy=Recipient
2	warm	gerund	lady not said here	Wendy			by the fire	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	look down	gerund	lady not said here				at lady; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
4	sit	past	lady					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	turn	gerund	lady not said here	a heel				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent heel=Theme
6	be in a quote	present	nothing			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is in a quote	present	the day's toil				over property	tree rules
8	rest in a quote	to-infinitive	lady not said here				by the fire; with the little ones	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by fire=Location
9	toil in a quote		the day					nom toil «act intransitive»: poss=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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