The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 17

Mr. McGregor was on his hands and knees planting out young cabbages, but he jumped up and ran after Peter, waving a rake and calling out, 'Stop thief!'

Who acts: McGregor, hands · What happens: be, plant out, jump up, run, wave, call out · To what, where: hands, young cabbages, rake, thief

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 (McGregor, hands), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 McGregor	nmod:desc
2	McGregor	McGregor	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hands	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hands	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 hands	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 knees	cc
8	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hands	conj
9	planting	plant	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 hands	acl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 planting	compound:prt
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cabbages	amod
12	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 planting	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 jumped	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 jumped	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 jumped	nsubj
16	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hands	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 jumped	compound:prt
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ran	cc
19	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 jumped	conj
20	after	after	ADP	_	21 Peter	case
21	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 ran	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 waving	punct
23	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 jumped	advcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 rake	det
25	rake	rake	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 waving	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 calling	cc
27	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 waving	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 calling	compound:prt
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Stop	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 Stop	punct
31	Stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 calling	obj
32	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Stop	obj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 Stop	punct
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 Stop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is	past	McGregor Mr.		McGregor's hands and knees		tree rules
2	plant out	gerund	McGregor's hands and knees not said here	young cabbages			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabbage=Patient
3	jump up	past	McGregor				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	run	past	McGregor not said here			after Peter	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wave	gerund	McGregor not said here	a rake			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rake=Patient
6	call out speech: assert	gerund	McGregor not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	stop	infinitive		thief			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality thief=Eventuality

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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