The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 57
It was the second little jacket and pair of shoes that Peter had lost in a fortnight!
Who acts: cooking · What happens: be, lose · To what, where: second little jacket, shoes
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 (cooking), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 jacket | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 jacket | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 jacket | det |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 jacket | amod |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 jacket | amod |
| 6 | jacket | jacket | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pair | cc |
| 8 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jacket | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 shoes | case |
| 10 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pair | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lost | aux |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 shoes | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 fortnight | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fortnight | det |
| 17 | fortnight | fortnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lost | obl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 jacket | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | cooking | the second little jacket and pair of shoes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | past · perfect · passive | shoes | fortnight | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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