The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 59
His mother put him to bed, and made some camomile tea; and she gave a dose of it to Peter!
Who acts: mother · What happens: put, make, give · To what, where: Peter, camomile tea, dose
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 (mother), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 tea | det |
| 11 | camomile | camomile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tea | compound |
| 12 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gave | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | nsubj |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 dose | det |
| 18 | dose | dose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dose | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Peter | case |
| 22 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Peter's mother | Peter | to bed | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal | |||
| 2 | make | past | Peter's mother not said here | some camomile tea | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tea=Product | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Mother | a dose of dose | Peter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent dose=Theme to peter=Recipient |
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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