Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 43

Of course when Peter landed he beached his barque in a place where the bird would easily find it; but the hat was such a great success that she abandoned the nest.

Who acts: Peter, bird, hat · What happens: land, beach, find, be, abandon · To what, where: barque, place, great success, nest

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 (Peter, bird, hat), 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	Of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	5 landed	advmod
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 landed	advmod
4	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 landed	nsubj
5	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 beached	nsubj
7	beached	beach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 landed	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 barque	nmod:poss
9	barque	barque	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beached	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 place	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 place	det
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beached	obl
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 find	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bird	det
15	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 find	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 find	aux
17	easily	easily	ADV	_	18 find	advmod
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 place	acl:relcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 find	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 success	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 success	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hat	det
23	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 success	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 success	cop
25	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	28 success	det:predet
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 success	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 success	amod
28	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 landed	parataxis
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 abandoned	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 abandoned	nsubj
31	abandoned	abandon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 success	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 nest	det
33	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 abandoned	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 landed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	land	past	Peter				vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	beach	past	bird	bird's barque	a place		vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent barque=Theme in place=Destination
3	find	would	the bird	barque		easily property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	is a	past	the hat	such great success			tree rules
5	abandon	past	Peter	the nest			vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme nest=Source

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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