Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 41

At the same moment the bird fluttered down upon the hat and once more sat snugly on her eggs.

Who acts: bird · What happens: flutter down, sit · To what, where: hat, eggs

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	At	at	ADP	_	4 moment	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moment	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moment	amod
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fluttered	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fluttered	nsubj
7	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 fluttered	advmod
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 hat	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hat	det
11	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fluttered	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sat	cc
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 sat	advmod
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 sat	advmod
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fluttered	conj
16	snugly	snugly	ADV	_	15 sat	advmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 eggs	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 eggs	nmod:poss
19	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sat	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fluttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flutter down	past	the bird			the hat	moment	down property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon hat=Location
2	sit	past	the bird not said here			Peter's eggs		once, snugly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on egg=Location

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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