The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 19
He lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: lose · To what, where: one
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 lost | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 shoes | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 cabbages | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cabbages | det |
| 9 | cabbages | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 shoes | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shoe | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shoe | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shoe | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 shoe | amod |
| 14 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lost | obl |
| 15 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 17 potatoes | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 potatoes | det |
| 17 | potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shoe | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | Peter | one of Peter's shoes among the cabbages | the other shoe amongst the potatoes obl | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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