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title: The Never bird saw at once what he was up to, and screamed her admir… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The Never bird saw at once what he was up to, and screamed her admiration of him; and, alas, Peter crowed his agreement with her. Who acts: bird, alas, Peter. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD, sentence 39

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The Never bird saw at once what he was up to, and screamed her admiration of him; and, alas, Peter crowed his agreement with her.

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**Who acts:** bird, alas, Peter · **What happens:** see, scream, crow, admire, agree · **To what, where:** admiration, agreement, bird

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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, alas, Peter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg16:10:39
# text = The Never bird saw at once what he was up to, and screamed her admiration of him; and, alas, Peter crowed his agreement with her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	advmod	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	obl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	screamed	scream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	alas	ala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
25	crowed	crow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the bird |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **scream** *speech: express* | past | the bird *not said here* | Peter's admiration of bird |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent admiration=Topic |
| 3 | **crow** | past | alas | bird's agreement |  |  |  | with Peter | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agreement=Topic |
| 4 | **admire** |  | Peter | bird |  |  |  |  | nom admiration «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
| 5 | **agree** |  | bird |  |  |  |  |  | nom agreement «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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