The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 16
But round the end of a cucumber frame, whom should he meet but Mr. McGregor!
Who acts: Peter · What happens: meet
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 | _ | 13 meet | cc |
| 2 | round | round | ADP | _ | 4 end | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 end | det |
| 4 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 meet | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 frame | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 frame | det |
| 7 | cucumber | cucumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 frame | compound |
| 8 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 end | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 meet | punct |
| 10 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 meet | obj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 meet | aux |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 meet | nsubj |
| 13 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 McGregor | cc |
| 15 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 McGregor | nmod:desc |
| 16 | McGregor | McGregor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 meet | conj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | should | Peter | round the end of a cucumber frame | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Co-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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