The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 13
But Peter, who was very naughty, ran straight away to Mr. McGregor's garden, and squeezed under the gate!
Who acts: Peter · What happens: be, run, squeeze · To what, where: gate
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 (Peter), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 ran | cc |
| 2 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 naughty | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 naughty | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 naughty | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 naughty | advmod |
| 7 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Peter | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Peter | punct |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 away | advmod |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 ran | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 garden | case |
| 13 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 McGregor | nmod:desc |
| 14 | McGregor | McGregor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 garden | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 McGregor | case |
| 16 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 away | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 squeezed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 squeezed | cc |
| 19 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ran | conj |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 gate | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 gate | det |
| 22 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 squeezed | obl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Peter | naughty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run | past | Peter | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | squeeze | past | Peter not said here | the gate | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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