The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 14

First he ate some lettuces and some French beans; and then he ate some radishes;

Who acts: Peter · What happens: eat · To what, where: lettuces, radishes

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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 ate	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 lettuces	det
5	lettuces	lettuce	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ate	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 beans	cc
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 beans	det
8	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beans	amod
9	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lettuces	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 ate	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ate	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 ate	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ate	nsubj
14	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ate	conj
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 radishes	det
16	radishes	radish	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ate	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Peter	some lettuces and some French beans				first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lettuce=Patient
2	eat	past	Peter	some radishes			then		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent radish=Patient

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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