Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 8

She had come to save him, to give him her nest, though there were eggs in it.

Who acts: Peter, eggs · What happens: come, save, give, be · To what, where: sound, 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, eggs), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 save	mark
5	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 save	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	9 give	mark
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 save	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 give	iobj
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 nest	nmod:poss
12	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 were	punct
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 were	mark
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 were	expl
16	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 give	conj
17	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 were	nsubj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 were	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	Peter				tree rules
2	save	to-infinitive	Peter not said here	sound			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	give	to-infinitive	Peter not said here	Peter's nest	sound		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient nest=Theme
4	be	past	eggs			nest; there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=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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