The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 23

Mr. McGregor came up with a sieve, which he intended to pop upon the top of Peter; but Peter wriggled out just in time, leaving his jacket behind him.

Who acts: McGregor, Peter · What happens: come up, intend, pop, wriggle out, leave · To what, where: sieve, top, 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 (McGregor, 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 McGregor	nmod:desc
2	McGregor	McGregor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 sieve	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sieve	det
7	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 intended	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 intended	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 intended	nsubj
11	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sieve	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 pop	mark
13	pop	pop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 intended	xcomp
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 top	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 top	det
16	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pop	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Peter	case
18	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 top	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 wriggled	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 wriggled	cc
21	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 wriggled	nsubj
22	wriggled	wriggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 wriggled	compound:prt
24	just	just	ADV	_	26 time	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 time	case
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wriggled	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 leaving	punct
28	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 wriggled	advcl
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 jacket	nmod:poss
30	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 leaving	obj
31	behind	behind	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 leaving	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past	McGregor Mr.				with a sieve	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	intend	past	McGregor	a sieve				tree rules
3	pop not said to happen	to-infinitive	McGregor not said here		the top of Peter			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon top=Location
4	wriggle out	past	Peter			time		vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	leave	gerund	Peter not said here	Peter's jacket			behind Peter	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent jacket=Theme behind he=Location

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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