The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 31
The window was too small for Mr. McGregor, and he was tired of running after Peter.
Who acts: window, McGregor · What happens: be, run
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 (window, McGregor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 window | det |
| 2 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 small | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 small | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 small | advmod |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 McGregor | case |
| 7 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 McGregor | nmod:desc |
| 8 | McGregor | McGregor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 small | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tired | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tired | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tired | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 tired | cop |
| 13 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 small | parataxis |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 running | mark |
| 15 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 tired | advcl |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 Peter | case |
| 17 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 running | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 small | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the window | for McGregor Mr.; small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | McGregor | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run | gerund | McGregor not said here | after Peter | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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