Peter Pan, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND, sentence 80

Or suppose we tell of the birds that were Peter’s friends, particularly of the Never bird that built in a tree overhanging the lagoon, and how the nest fell into the water, and still the bird sat on her eggs, and Peter gave orders that she was not to be disturbed.

Who acts: you, we, birds, bird, tree, nest · What happens: suppose, tell, be, build, overhang, fall · To what, where: friends, lagoon, water, eggs, orders, Peter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we, birds, 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	Or	or	CCONJ	_	2 suppose	cc
2	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 suppose	ccomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 birds	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 birds	det
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 friends	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 friends	cop
10	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 friends	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 Peter	case
12	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 birds	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bird	punct
14	particularly	particularly	ADV	_	18 bird	advmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 bird	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bird	det
17	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 bird	advmod
18	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 friends	appos
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 built	nsubj
20	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 bird	acl:relcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 tree	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 tree	det
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 built	obl
24	overhanging	overhang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 tree	acl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 lagoon	det
26	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 overhanging	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fell	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fell	cc
29	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 fell	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 nest	det
31	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fell	nsubj
32	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	ccomp
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 water	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 water	det
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fell	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 sat	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 sat	cc
38	still	still	ADV	_	41 sat	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 bird	det
40	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sat	nsubj
41	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 fell	conj
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 eggs	case
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 eggs	nmod:poss
44	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 sat	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 gave	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 gave	cc
47	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 gave	nsubj
48	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 fell	conj
49	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 gave	obj
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	56 disturbed	mark
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 disturbed	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 disturbed	aux:pass
53	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 disturbed	advmod
54	to	to	PART	_	56 disturbed	mark
55	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	56 disturbed	aux:pass
56	disturbed	disturb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 gave	advcl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suppose	imperative	you not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	present	we				of the birds	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a	past	the birds	Peter's friends				tree rules
4	build	past	the bird				in a tree	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in tree=Attribute
5	overhang	gerund	a tree not said here	the lagoon				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lagoon=Co-Theme
6	fall	past	the nest				into the water result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result
7	sit	past	the bird		Peter's eggs	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on egg=Location
8	give	past	Peter	orders				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
9	not disturb	past · passive		Peter				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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