The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 58
I am sorry to say that Peter was not very well during the evening.
Who acts: I, Peter · What happens: be, say, not be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sorry | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sorry | cop |
| 3 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 say | mark |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sorry | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 evening | mark |
| 7 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 evening | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 evening | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 evening | advmod |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 well | advmod |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 evening | advmod |
| 12 | during | during | ADP | _ | 14 evening | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 evening | det |
| 14 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | Peter | during the evening | well property | tree rules |
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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