Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 61

The fact is that they are all a little fat just now after the heavy gorging, but in time they will work this off.

Who acts: fact, sound · What happens: be, gorge, work off · To what, where: little fat, this

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fact, sound), 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 fact	det
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fat	nsubj:outer
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fat	cop
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 fat	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fat	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fat	cop
7	all	all	ADV	_	10 fat	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fat	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fat	amod
10	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 now	advmod
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 heavy	advmod
13	after	after	SCONJ	_	15 heavy	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 heavy	det
15	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fat	advcl
16	gorging	gorge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 heavy	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 work	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 work	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 time	case
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 work	obl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 work	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 work	aux
23	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 gorging	ccomp
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 work	obj
25	off	off	ADP	_	23 work	compound:prt
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the fact	a little fat		all property	tree rules
2	gorge	gerund	the fact not said here				tree rules
3	work off	future	sound	this	time		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent this=Material

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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