The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 6

They lived with their Mother in a sand-bank, underneath the root of a very big fir-tree.

Who acts: names · What happens: live · To what, where: sand bank

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 (names), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 Mother	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 Mother	nmod:poss
5	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 bank	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bank	det
8	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bank	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 sand	punct
10	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 root	punct
12	underneath	underneath	ADP	_	14 root	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 root	det
14	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	parataxis
15	of	of	ADP	_	21 tree	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tree	det
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 big	advmod
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tree	amod
19	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tree	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 fir	punct
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 root	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	names = name			a sand bank		with names's Mother	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with mother=Location

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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