The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 53
Mr. McGregor hung up the little jacket and the shoes for a scare-crow to frighten the blackbirds.
Who acts: McGregor · What happens: hang up, frighten · To what, where: little jacket, blackbirds
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), 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 hung | nsubj |
| 3 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 hung | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 jacket | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 jacket | amod |
| 7 | jacket | jacket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shoes | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shoes | det |
| 10 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 jacket | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 crow | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 crow | det |
| 13 | scare | scare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crow | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 scare | punct |
| 15 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 frighten | mark |
| 17 | frighten | frighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hung | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 blackbirds | det |
| 19 | blackbirds | blackbird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 frighten | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang up | past | McGregor Mr. | the little jacket and the shoes | for a scare crow | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jacket=Patient | |||
| 2 | frighten | to-infinitive | McGregor Mr. not said here | the blackbirds | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus blackbird=Experiencer |
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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