The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 54
Peter never stopped running or looked behind him till he got home to the big fir-tree.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: not stop, run, look, get
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 | 3 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 stopped | advmod |
| 3 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stopped | xcomp |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 looked | cc |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stopped | conj |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looked | obl |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 got | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looked | advcl |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 got | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 tree | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tree | amod |
| 16 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tree | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 fir | punct |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stop | past | Peter | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | run | gerund | Peter not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | past | Peter not said here | behind Peter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | past | Peter | to the big fir tree result; home property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to tree=Result |
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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