The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 50
Peter got down very quietly off the wheelbarrow; and started running as fast as he could go, along a straight walk behind some black-currant bushes.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: get down, start, run, go · To what, where: straight walk
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 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 got | advmod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 quietly | advmod |
| 5 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 2 got | advmod |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 wheelbarrow | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wheelbarrow | det |
| 8 | wheelbarrow | wheelbarrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 started | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 started | cc |
| 11 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 12 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 started | xcomp |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 fast | advmod |
| 14 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 running | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 go | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 go | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 go | aux |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 fast | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 walk | punct |
| 20 | along | along | ADP | _ | 23 walk | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 walk | det |
| 22 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 walk | amod |
| 23 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 24 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 29 bushes | case |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 bushes | det |
| 26 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 currant | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 black | punct |
| 28 | currant | currant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bushes | compound |
| 29 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 walk | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get down | past | Peter | off the wheelbarrow; down, quietly property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | start | past | Peter not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | run | gerund | Peter not said here | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | could | Peter | a straight walk behind some currant bushes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along walk=Initial_Location |
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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