The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 35
After a time he began to wander about, going lippity--lippity--not very fast, and looking all round.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: begin, wander, go, look · To what, where: lippity
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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 wander | mark |
| 7 | wander | wander | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 wander | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 going | punct |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 began | conj |
| 11 | lippity | lippity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 going | obj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 lippity | punct |
| 13 | lippity | lippity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lippity | conj |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 fast | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 fast | advmod |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 fast | advmod |
| 17 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 going | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 looking | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 looking | cc |
| 20 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 began | advcl |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 round | advmod |
| 22 | round | round | ADV | _ | 20 looking | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Peter | time | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | wander | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | Peter not said here | lippity and lippity | fast property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lippity=Theme | |||
| 4 | look | gerund | Peter not said here | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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