Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 28

Nevertheless the bird was determined to save him if she could, and by one last mighty effort she propelled the nest against the rock.

Who acts: bird, Peter · What happens: be, save, propel · To what, where: bird, nest

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, Peter), 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	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	5 determined	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 determined	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 determined	cop
5	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 save	mark
7	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 determined	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 save	obj
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 could	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 could	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 save	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 propelled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 propelled	cc
14	by	by	ADP	_	18 effort	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 effort	nummod
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 effort	amod
17	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 effort	amod
18	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 propelled	obl
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 propelled	nsubj
20	propelled	propel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 determined	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 nest	det
22	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 propelled	obj
23	against	against	ADP	_	25 rock	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rock	det
25	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 propelled	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the bird		determined, nevertheless property	tree rules
2	save	to-infinitive	the bird not said here	bird		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	propel	past	Peter	the nest	by one last mighty effort; against the rock	tree rules

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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