The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 43

A white cat was staring at some gold-fish, she sat very, very still, but now and then the tip of her tail twitched as if it were alive.

Who acts: white cat, cat, tip · What happens: stare, sit, twitch, be · To what, where: tip

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 (white cat, cat, tip), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cat	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cat	amod
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 staring	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 staring	aux
5	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	10 fish	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 fish	det
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fish	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 gold	punct
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 staring	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sat	nsubj
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 staring	conj
14	very	very	ADV	_	13 sat	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 still	punct
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 still	advmod
17	still	still	ADV	_	13 sat	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 twitched	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 twitched	cc
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 twitched	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 twitched	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 twitched	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tip	det
24	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 twitched	nsubj:pass
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 tail	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 tail	nmod:poss
27	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tip	nmod
28	twitched	twitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 staring	conj
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 alive	mark
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 alive	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 alive	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 alive	cop
33	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 twitched	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 staring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stare	past · progressive	a white cat			at some gold fish	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at fish=Theme
2	sit	past	cat				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	twitch	participle · passive		the tip of cat's tail	now; then		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	is	past	tip			alive property	tree rules

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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