Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 63

“It will be rather lonely in the evening,” she said, “sitting by the fire.”

Who acts: fun, lot · What happens: be, say, sit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fun, lot), 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	_	6 lonely	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lonely	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 lonely	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 lonely	cop
5	rather	rather	ADV	_	6 lonely	advmod
6	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 evening	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 evening	det
9	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lonely	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lonely	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 lonely	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sitting	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 sitting	punct
16	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 said	ccomp
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 fire	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fire	det
19	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sitting	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 sitting	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	future	fun	evening	lonely property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	lot			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sit in a quote	gerund			by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location

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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