The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 27
He began to turn them over carefully, looking under each.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: begin, turn over, look · To what, where: tears
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 turn | mark |
| 4 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 began | xcomp |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 turn | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 turn | compound:prt |
| 7 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 4 turn | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looking | punct |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 turn | advcl |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 each | case |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 looking | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Peter | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | turn over | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | tears = tear | carefully property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | look | gerund | Peter not said here | under each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent under each=Theme |
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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