The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 60
'One table-spoonful to be taken at bed-time.'
What happens: take
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: 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoonful | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 spoonful | nummod |
| 3 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spoonful | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 table | punct |
| 5 | spoonful | spoonful | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 taken | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 taken | aux:pass |
| 8 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 spoonful | acl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 time | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 bed | punct |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoonful | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoonful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | to-infinitive · passive | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP» |
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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