Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 30

Then at last he understood, and clutched the nest and waved his thanks to the bird as she fluttered overhead.

Who acts: bird, Peter · What happens: understand, clutch, wave, flutter · To what, where: last, nest, thanks, bird

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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 understood	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 understood	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 understood	nsubj
5	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 clutched	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 clutched	cc
8	clutched	clutch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 understood	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 nest	det
10	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 clutched	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 waved	cc
12	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 clutched	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 thanks	nmod:poss
14	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 waved	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 bird	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bird	det
17	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 waved	obl
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 fluttered	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fluttered	nsubj
20	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 waved	advcl
21	overhead	overhead	ADV	_	20 fluttered	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 understood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	past	bird			last	then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	clutch	past		the nest					vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme
3	wave	past		bird's thanks	the bird				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme to bird=Recipient
4	flutter	past	Peter					overhead property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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