The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 51
Mr. McGregor caught sight of him at the corner, but Peter did not care.
Who acts: McGregor, Peter · What happens: catch, not care, sight · To what, where: sight, corner, Peter
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 (McGregor, 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 McGregor | nmod:desc |
| 2 | McGregor | McGregor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sight | nmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 corner | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 corner | det |
| 9 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 care | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 care | cc |
| 12 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 care | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 care | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 care | advmod |
| 15 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 caught | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | McGregor Mr. | sight of Peter | the corner | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent sight=Theme at corner=Asset | |||
| 2 | not care | past · do-support | Peter | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | sight | Peter | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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