The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 42
Presently, he came to a pond where Mr. McGregor filled his water-cans.
Who acts: Peter, McGregor · What happens: come, fill · To what, where: pond, water cans
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, McGregor), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Presently | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 pond | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pond | det |
| 7 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 filled | advmod |
| 9 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 McGregor | nmod:desc |
| 10 | McGregor | McGregor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 filled | nsubj |
| 11 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pond | acl:relcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 cans | nmod:poss |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cans | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 water | punct |
| 15 | cans | can | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 filled | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Peter | a pond | presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pond=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | fill | past | McGregor Mr. | Peter's water cans | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent can=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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