Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 53

And there never was a more humble man than the once proud George Darling, as he sat in the kennel of an evening talking with his wife of their children and all their pretty ways.

Who acts: humble man, man, evening · What happens: not be, sit, talk · To what, where: kennel

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (humble man, man, evening), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 was	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 was	advmod
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sat	parataxis
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 humble	advmod
7	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
9	than	than	ADP	_	13 George	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 George	det
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 proud	advmod
12	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 George	amod
13	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 man	nmod
14	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 George	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 sat	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sat	nsubj
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 kennel	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 kennel	det
21	kennel	kennel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 evening	case
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 evening	det
24	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kennel	nmod
25	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 evening	acl
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 wife	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 wife	nmod:poss
28	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 talking	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 children	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 children	nmod:poss
31	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 wife	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 ways	cc
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 ways	det:predet
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 ways	nmod:poss
35	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 ways	amod
36	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 kennel	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not be	past	a humble man than the proud George	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	past	man	the kennel of a evening and children's pretty ways		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in kennel=Location
3	talk	gerund	a evening not said here		with man's wife of children's children	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with wife=Co-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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