The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 26
Mr. McGregor was quite sure that Peter was somewhere in the tool-shed, perhaps hidden underneath a flower-pot.
Who acts: McGregor, Peter · What happens: be, hide · To what, where: tool shed, flower pot
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 | 5 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sure | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 sure | advmod |
| 5 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 somewhere | mark |
| 7 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 somewhere | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 somewhere | cop |
| 9 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 sure | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 shed | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shed | det |
| 12 | tool | tool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shed | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 tool | punct |
| 14 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 somewhere | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hidden | punct |
| 16 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 17 hidden | advmod |
| 17 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 somewhere | conj |
| 18 | underneath | underneath | ADP | _ | 22 pot | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pot | det |
| 20 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pot | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 flower | punct |
| 22 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hidden | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | McGregor Mr. | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Peter | the tool shed | somewhere property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | hide | participle | Peter not said here | a flower pot | perhaps property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent underneath pot=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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