The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 4
Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--
Who acts: four little Rabbits, names, Rabbits · What happens: be, name
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 (four little Rabbits, names, Rabbits), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 were | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 were | expl |
| 6 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 Rabbits | nummod |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Rabbits | amod |
| 9 | Rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 were | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 were | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 were | cc |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 names | nmod:poss |
| 13 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 were | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 were | conj |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | four little Rabbits | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | be | past | Rabbits's names | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | name | Rabbits = rabbit | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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