The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 25

It would have been a beautiful thing to hide in, if it had not had so much water in it.

Who acts: shed · What happens: be, hide, not have · To what, where: beautiful thing, much water, water

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 (shed), 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	7 thing	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 thing	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 thing	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 hide	mark
9	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thing	acl
10	in	in	ADV	_	9 hide	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 had	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 had	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 had	advmod
16	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 thing	parataxis
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 water	amod
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	would · perfect	shed	a beautiful thing		tree rules
2	hide	to-infinitive				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not have a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	shed	much water	water	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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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