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title: “Ah, old lady,” Peter said aside to Wendy, warming himself by the fi… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Ah, old lady,” Peter said aside to Wendy, warming himself by the fire and looking down at her as she sat turning a heel, “there is nothing more pleasant of an evening for you and me when the day’s toil is over than to rest by the fire with the little ones near by.” Who acts: old lady, lady, nothing
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# Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 97

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“Ah, old lady,” Peter said aside to Wendy, warming himself by the fire and looking down at her as she sat turning a heel, “there is nothing more pleasant of an evening for you and me when the day’s toil is over than to rest by the fire with the little ones near by.”

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**Who acts:** old lady, lady, nothing, toil, day · **What happens:** say, warm, look down, sit, turn, be · **To what, where:** Wendy, heel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old lady, lady, nothing, toil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg16:11:97
# text = “Ah, old lady,” Peter said aside to Wendy, warming himself by the fire and looking down at her as she sat turning a heel, “there is nothing more pleasant of an evening for you and me when the day’s toil is over than to rest by the fire with the little ones near by.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	warming	warm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
27	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	heel	heel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	33	expl	_	_
33	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	33	nsubj	_	_
35	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	36	advmod	_	_
36	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	nmod	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	conj	_	_
44	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	50	mark	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	’s	's	PART	POS	_	46	case	_	_
48	toil	toil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
49	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
50	over	over	ADV	RB	_	26	ccomp	_	_
51	than	than	ADP	IN	_	50	fixed	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
54	by	by	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
57	with	with	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obl	_	_
61	near	near	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
62	by	by	ADP	IN	_	61	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | old lady |  | Wendy |  |  | aside *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wendy=Recipient |
| 2 | **warm** | gerund | lady *not said here* | Wendy |  |  |  | by the fire | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 3 | **look down** | gerund | lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at lady; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |
| 4 | **sit** | past | lady |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **turn** | gerund | lady *not said here* | a heel |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent heel=Theme |
| 6 | **be** *in a quote* | present | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the day's toil |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **rest** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the fire; with the little ones | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by fire=Location |
| 9 | **toil** *in a quote* |  | the day |  |  |  |  |  | nom toil «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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