Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 39

The Never bird saw at once what he was up to, and screamed her admiration of him; and, alas, Peter crowed his agreement with her.

Who acts: bird, alas, Peter · What happens: see, scream, crow, admire, agree · To what, where: admiration, agreement, 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, alas, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 bird	advmod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 what	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 what	advmod
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 saw	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 was	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 was	compound:prt
11	to	to	ADP	_	9 was	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 screamed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 screamed	cc
14	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 admiration	nmod:poss
16	admiration	admiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 screamed	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 admiration	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 crowed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 crowed	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 and	punct
22	alas	ala	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 crowed	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Peter	punct
24	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 alas	appos
25	crowed	crow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 agreement	nmod:poss
27	agreement	agreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 crowed	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 crowed	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the bird			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	scream speech: express	past	the bird not said here	Peter's admiration of bird		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent admiration=Topic
3	crow	past	alas	bird's agreement	with Peter	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agreement=Topic
4	admire		Peter	bird		nom admiration «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient
5	agree		bird			nom agreement «communication intransitive»: poss=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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