The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 20
After losing them, he ran on four legs and went faster, so that I think he might have got away altogether if he had not unfortunately run into a gooseberry net, and got caught by the large buttons on his jacket.
Who acts: Peter, I · What happens: lose, run, go, think, get away, not run · To what, where: cabbages, four legs, gooseberry net · Speech: someone speaks here
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, I), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 losing | mark |
| 2 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 ran | advcl |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 losing | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 losing | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ran | nsubj |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 legs | case |
| 8 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 legs | nummod |
| 9 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ran | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ran | conj |
| 12 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 think | punct |
| 14 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 think | mark |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 so | fixed |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 think | nsubj |
| 17 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ran | parataxis |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 got | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 got | aux |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 got | aux |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 think | ccomp |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 got | advmod |
| 23 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 21 got | advmod |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 run | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 run | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 run | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 run | advmod |
| 28 | unfortunately | unfortunately | ADV | _ | 29 run | advmod |
| 29 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 got | advcl |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 net | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 net | det |
| 32 | gooseberry | gooseberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 net | compound |
| 33 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 run | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 caught | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 caught | cc |
| 36 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 caught | aux:pass |
| 37 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ran | conj |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 buttons | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 buttons | det |
| 40 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 buttons | amod |
| 41 | buttons | button | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 caught | obl |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 jacket | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 jacket | nmod:poss |
| 44 | jacket | jacket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 buttons | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | gerund | Peter not said here | cabbages = cabbage | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | run | past | Peter | four legs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Peter not said here | fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | get away | might · perfect | Peter | altogether, away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | not run a condition, not said to happen | past | Peter | a gooseberry net | unfortunately property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into net=Destination | |||
| 7 | catch | past · passive | Peter not said here | by the large buttons on Peter's jacket | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» |
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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