The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 36
He found a door in a wall; but it was locked, and there was no room for a fat little rabbit to squeeze underneath.
Who acts: Peter, room · What happens: find, lock, be, squeeze · To what, where: door, wall
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, room), 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 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 wall | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wall | det |
| 7 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 locked | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 locked | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 locked | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 locked | aux:pass |
| 12 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 found | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 was | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 was | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 locked | conj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 room | det |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 was | nsubj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 rabbit | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 rabbit | det |
| 21 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rabbit | amod |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rabbit | amod |
| 23 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 room | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 squeeze | mark |
| 25 | squeeze | squeeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 rabbit | acl |
| 26 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 25 squeeze | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Peter | a door | a wall | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic | |||
| 2 | lock | past · passive | door | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | be | past | no room for a fat little rabbit | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | squeeze | to-infinitive | no room for a fat little rabbit not said here | underneath property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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