The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 41
Then he tried to find his way straight across the garden, but he became more and more puzzled.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: try, find, become · To what, where: way, garden
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 tried | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 way | nmod:poss |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 garden | advmod |
| 9 | across | across | ADP | _ | 11 garden | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 garden | det |
| 11 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 became | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 became | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 became | nsubj |
| 15 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | parataxis |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 became | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 puzzled | cc |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 puzzled | advmod |
| 19 | puzzled | puzzled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 became | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Peter | then | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | Peter's way | the garden | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | |||
| 3 | become | past | Peter | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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