Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 29

Then up she flew; deserting her eggs, so as to make her meaning clear.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: fly, desert, make, mean · To what, where: eggs, Peter

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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 flew	advmod
2	up	up	ADP	_	4 flew	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 deserting	punct
6	deserting	desert	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 flew	advcl
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eggs	nmod:poss
8	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 deserting	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 make	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 make	mark
12	to	to	PART	_	13 make	mark
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 deserting	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	obj
15	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 make	advcl
16	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 meaning	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	Peter		then		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	desert	gerund	Peter not said here	Peter's eggs			vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme egg=Source
3	make	to-infinitive	Peter not said here	Peter			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product
4	mean	gerund	Peter not said here			clear property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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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