Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 44

It drifted about till it went to pieces, and often Starkey came to the shore of the lagoon, and with many bitter feelings watched the bird sitting on his hat.

Who acts: hat, Starkey, bird · What happens: drift, go, come, watch, sit · To what, where: pieces, shore, bird, hat

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 (hat, Starkey, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drifted	nsubj
2	drifted	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	2 drifted	advmod
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	6 went	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drifted	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 pieces	case
8	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
11	often	often	ADV	_	12 Starkey	advmod
12	Starkey	Starkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drifted	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 shore	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shore	det
16	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 lagoon	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lagoon	det
19	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shore	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 watched	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 watched	cc
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 feelings	case
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 feelings	amod
24	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 feelings	amod
25	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 watched	obl
26	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 came	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bird	det
28	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 watched	obj
29	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 bird	acl
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 hat	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 hat	nmod:poss
32	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sitting	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drift	past	hat			about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	hat		pieces		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to piece=Initial_Location
3	come	past	Starkey		the shore of the lagoon		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shore=Initial_Location
4	watch	past	Starkey not said here	the bird		with many bitter feelings	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
5	sit	gerund	the bird not said here		bird's hat		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hat=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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