The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 10
Then old Mrs. Rabbit took a basket and her umbrella, and went through the wood to the baker's.
Who acts: old Mrs. Rabbit · What happens: take, go · To what, where: basket, wood
This is a sentence of «The Tale of Peter Rabbit» by Beatrix Potter, Frederick Warne. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Mrs. Rabbit), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 took | advmod |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Rabbit | amod |
| 3 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Rabbit | compound |
| 4 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 basket | det |
| 7 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 umbrella | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 umbrella | nmod:poss |
| 10 | umbrella | umbrella | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 basket | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 wood | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wood | det |
| 16 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 baker | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 baker | det |
| 19 | baker | baker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 baker | case |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | old Mrs. Rabbit | a basket and Mrs.'s umbrella | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | old Mrs. Rabbit not said here | the wood | to the baker | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through wood=Initial_Location to baker=Destination |
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: «The Tale of Peter Rabbit» by Beatrix Potter, Project Gutenberg book 14838 (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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