The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 37
An old mouse was running in and out over the stone doorstep, carrying peas and beans to her family in the wood.
Who acts: old mouse · What happens: run, carry · To what, where: stone doorstep, peas, wood
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 (old mouse), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mouse | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mouse | amod |
| 3 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 running | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 running | aux |
| 5 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 running | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 out | cc |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 in | conj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 doorstep | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 doorstep | det |
| 11 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 doorstep | compound |
| 12 | doorstep | doorstep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 running | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 carrying | punct |
| 14 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 running | conj |
| 15 | peas | pea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 carrying | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 beans | cc |
| 17 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 peas | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 family | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 family | nmod:poss |
| 20 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carrying | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 wood | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wood | det |
| 23 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carrying | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 running | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past · progressive | a old mouse | the stone doorstep | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over doorstep=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | carry | gerund | a old mouse not said here | peas and beans | the wood | to mouse's family | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pea=Theme to family=Destination |
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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