The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 44
Peter thought it best to go away without speaking to her; he had heard about cats from his cousin, little Benjamin Bunny.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: think, go away, speak, hear · To what, where: cat, cousin · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 best | expl |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 speaking | mark |
| 9 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 go | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 speaking | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 heard | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 heard | aux |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 thought | conj |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 cats | case |
| 17 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 heard | obl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 cousin | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 20 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heard | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Benjamin | punct |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Benjamin | amod |
| 23 | Benjamin | Benjamin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 cousin | appos |
| 24 | Bunny | Bunny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Benjamin | flat |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Peter | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go away | to-infinitive | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | gerund | cat | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent | |||||
| 4 | hear | past · perfect | Peter | Peter's cousin | about cats | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.source»: agent=Agent about cat=Theme from cousin=Source |
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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