Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 1

“Listen, then,” said Wendy, settling down to her story, with Michael at her feet and seven boys in the bed.

Who acts: Wendy · What happens: listen, say, settle down · To what, where: feet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wendy), 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	_	2 Listen	punct
2	Listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Listen	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 settling	punct
10	settling	settle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 settling	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 story	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 story	nmod:poss
14	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 down	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Michael	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 Michael	case
17	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 settling	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 feet	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 feet	nmod:poss
20	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 settling	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 boys	cc
22	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 boys	nummod
23	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 feet	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 bed	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bed	det
26	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 settling	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen in a quote	infinitive			then		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Wendy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	settle down	gerund	Wendy not said here	Wendy's feet and seven boys		with Michael; in the bed; down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

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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