The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 55
He was so tired that he flopped down upon the nice soft sand on the floor of the rabbit-hole and shut his eyes.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: be, flop down, shut · To what, where: nice soft sand, eyes
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tired | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tired | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 tired | advmod |
| 4 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 flopped | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 flopped | nsubj |
| 7 | flopped | flop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tired | advcl |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 flopped | advmod |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 sand | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sand | det |
| 11 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sand | amod |
| 12 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sand | amod |
| 13 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flopped | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 floor | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 floor | det |
| 16 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sand | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 hole | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hole | det |
| 19 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hole | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 rabbit | punct |
| 21 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 floor | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 shut | cc |
| 23 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 flopped | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 shut | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Peter | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flop down | past | Peter | the nice soft sand on the floor of the rabbit hole | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon sand=Location | |||
| 3 | shut | past | Peter not said here | Peter's eyes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=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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