The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 38

Peter asked her the way to the gate, but she had such a large pea in her mouth that she could not answer.

Who acts: Peter, mouse · What happens: ask, have, not answer · To what, where: way, mouse, large pea, mouth

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, 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	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 gate	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gate	det
8	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 way	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	parataxis
13	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	16 pea	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pea	det
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pea	amod
16	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 mouth	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mouth	nmod:poss
19	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pea	nmod
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 answer	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 answer	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 answer	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 answer	advmod
24	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Peter	the way	mouse		to the gate	tree rules
2	have	past	mouse	such large pea		mouse's mouth		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Patient
3	not answer speech: assert	could	mouse					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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