Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 31

It was not to receive his thanks, however, that she hung there in the sky; it was not even to watch him get into the nest; it was to see what he did with her eggs.

Who acts: nest, Peter, bird · What happens: not be, hang, get, see, do · To what, where: sky, nest · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (nest, Peter, bird), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 receive	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 receive	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 receive	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 receive	mark
5	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 thanks	nmod:poss
7	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 receive	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 however	punct
9	however	however	ADV	_	5 receive	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hung	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 hung	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hung	nsubj
13	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 receive	conj
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 hung	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 sky	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sky	det
17	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hung	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 watch	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 watch	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 watch	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 watch	advmod
22	even	even	ADV	_	24 watch	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 watch	mark
24	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 receive	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 watch	obj
26	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 watch	xcomp
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 nest	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 nest	det
29	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 get	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 see	punct
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 see	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 see	aux
33	to	to	PART	_	34 see	mark
34	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 receive	conj
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 did	obj
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 did	nsubj
37	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 see	ccomp
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 eggs	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 eggs	nmod:poss
40	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 did	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 receive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	nest		however, receive property	tree rules
2	hang	past	Peter	the sky; there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sky=Location
3	not is	past	nest		watch property	tree rules
4	get	infinitive	nest not said here	the nest		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into nest=Destination
5	see	past	nest			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	do	past	bird		with Peter's eggs	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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