The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 47
But presently, as nothing happened, he came out, and climbed upon a wheelbarrow and peeped over.
Who acts: nothing, Peter · What happens: happen, come out, climb, peep over · To what, where: wheelbarrow
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 (nothing, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 2 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 presently | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 happened | mark |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 happened | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 climbed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 climbed | cc |
| 13 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | parataxis |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 wheelbarrow | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 wheelbarrow | det |
| 16 | wheelbarrow | wheelbarrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 climbed | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 peeped | cc |
| 18 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 climbed | conj |
| 19 | over | over | ADV | _ | 18 peeped | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | nothing | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come out | past | Peter | out, presently property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | climb | past | a wheelbarrow | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon wheelbarrow=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | peep over | past | over property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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