Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 36

The stave was still there, and on it Starkey had hung his hat, a deep tarpaulin, watertight, with a broad brim.

Who acts: stave, Starkey · What happens: be, hang · To what, where: hat, stave

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 (stave, Starkey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg16:1375): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stave	det
2	stave	stave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 there	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 there	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 there	advmod
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hung	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hung	cc
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hung	obl
10	Starkey	Starkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 hung	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hung	aux
12	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 there	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hat	nmod:poss
14	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hung	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tarpaulin	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tarpaulin	det
17	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tarpaulin	amod
18	tarpaulin	tarpaulin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hat	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 watertight	punct
20	watertight	watertight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tarpaulin	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 brim	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 brim	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 brim	det
24	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 brim	amod
25	brim	brim	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tarpaulin	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the stave				still	there property	tree rules
2	hang	past · perfect	Starkey	Starkey's hat		stave			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hat=Theme on it=Destination

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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