Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 40
Then he got into the nest, reared the stave in it as a mast, and hung up his shirt for a sail.
Who acts: bird · What happens: get, rear, hang up · To what, where: nest, stave, shirt
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), 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 | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 nest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nest | det |
| 6 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 reared | punct |
| 8 | reared | rear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stave | det |
| 10 | stave | stave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reared | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 reared | obl |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 mast | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 mast | det |
| 15 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reared | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hung | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hung | cc |
| 18 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 hung | compound:prt |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 shirt | nmod:poss |
| 21 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hung | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 sail | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 sail | det |
| 24 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hung | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | bird | the nest | then | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into nest=Destination | |||
| 2 | rear | past | bird not said here | the stave | stave | as a mast | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stave=Patient | ||
| 3 | hang up | past | bird not said here | bird's shirt | for a sail | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Patient |
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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