The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 21
It was a blue jacket with brass buttons, quite new.
Who acts: net · What happens: be · To what, where: blue jacket
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 (net), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 jacket | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 jacket | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 jacket | det |
| 4 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 jacket | amod |
| 5 | jacket | jacket | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 buttons | case |
| 7 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 buttons | compound |
| 8 | buttons | button | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 jacket | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 new | punct |
| 10 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 11 new | advmod |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 jacket | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 jacket | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | net | a blue jacket | with brass buttons | tree rules |
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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