The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 46
Peter scuttered underneath the bushes.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: scutter · To what, where: bushes
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 scuttered | nsubj |
| 2 | scuttered | scutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | underneath | underneath | ADP | _ | 5 bushes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bushes | det |
| 5 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 scuttered | obl |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 scuttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scutter | past | Peter | the bushes | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme underneath bush=Trajectory |
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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