Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 124

The fire was warm, however, and the nursery dimly lit by three night-lights, and presently the sewing lay on Mrs. Darling’s lap.

Who acts: fire, three night lights, sewing · What happens: be, lit, lie · To what, where: nursery, lap

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire, three night lights, sewing), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fire	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warm	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 warm	cop
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 however	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	4 warm	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lit	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lit	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 nursery	det
10	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lit	nsubj:pass
11	dimly	dimly	ADV	_	12 lit	advmod
12	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 warm	advcl
13	by	by	ADP	_	17 lights	case
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 lights	nummod
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lights	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 night	punct
17	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lit	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lay	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lay	cc
20	presently	presently	ADV	_	23 lay	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sewing	det
22	sewing	sewing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lay	nsubj
23	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 warm	parataxis
24	on	on	ADP	_	28 lap	case
25	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Darling	compound
26	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 lap	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 Darling	case
28	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lay	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 warm	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fire			however, warm property	tree rules
2	lit	participle · passive	three night lights	the nursery		dimly property	tree rules
3	lie	past	the sewing		Mrs. Darling's lap	presently property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on lap=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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