The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 12
Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail, who were good little bunnies, went down the lane to gather blackberries:
Who acts: Cottontail, Flopsy · What happens: be, go down, gather · To what, where: good little bunnies, lane, blackberries
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 (Cottontail, Flopsy), 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 | Flopsy | Flopsy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Mopsy | punct |
| 3 | Mopsy | Mopsy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Flopsy | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 6 | Cottontail | Cottontail | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bunnies | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 bunnies | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bunnies | cop |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bunnies | amod |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bunnies | amod |
| 12 | bunnies | bunny | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Cottontail | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Cottontail | punct |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 lane | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lane | det |
| 17 | lane | lane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 gather | mark |
| 19 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 went | advcl |
| 20 | blackberries | blackberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 gather | obj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Cottontail and good little bunnies | good little bunnies | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go down | past | Flopsy | the lane | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient lane=Extent | ||||
| 3 | gather | to-infinitive | Flopsy not said here | blackberries | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blackberry=Theme |
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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