The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 48
The first thing he saw was Mr. McGregor hoeing onions.
Who acts: Peter, first thing, McGregor · What happens: see, be, hoe · To what, where: first thing, McGregor, onions
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, first thing, McGregor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 McGregor | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thing | acl:relcl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 McGregor | cop |
| 7 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 McGregor | nmod:desc |
| 8 | McGregor | McGregor | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | hoeing | hoe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 McGregor | acl |
| 10 | onions | onion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hoeing | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 McGregor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Peter | the first thing not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the first thing | McGregor | Mr. nmod:desc | tree rules | |||
| 3 | hoe | gerund | McGregor not said here | onions | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent onion=Theme |
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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