The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 45
He went back towards the tool-shed, but suddenly, quite close to him, he heard the noise of a hoe--scr-r-ritch, scratch, scratch, scritch.
Who acts: Peter, r ritch · What happens: go back, hear, scratch, scritch, noise · To what, where: noise
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, r ritch), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 8 shed | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shed | det |
| 6 | tool | tool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shed | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 tool | punct |
| 8 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 close | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 close | cc |
| 11 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 14 close | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 close | punct |
| 13 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 14 close | advmod |
| 14 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 close | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 heard | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 heard | nsubj |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 noise | det |
| 21 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heard | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 ritch | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 ritch | det |
| 24 | hoe | hoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 scr | compound |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 hoe | punct |
| 26 | scr | scr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ritch | nsubj |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 scr | punct |
| 28 | r | r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ritch | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 ritch | punct |
| 30 | ritch | ritch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 noise | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 scratch | punct |
| 32 | scratch | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 heard | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 scratch | punct |
| 34 | scratch | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 scratch | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 scritch | punct |
| 36 | scritch | scritch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 scratch | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | Peter | towards the tool shed | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Peter | the noise of a r ritch | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | scratch | infinitive | Peter not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | scratch | infinitive | Peter not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | scritch | infinitive | Peter not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | noise | a r ritch | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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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