The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 61
But Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail had bread and milk and blackberries for supper.
Who acts: Flopsy · What happens: have · To what, where: bread
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 (Flopsy), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 2 | Flopsy | Flopsy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 had | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mopsy | punct |
| 4 | Mopsy | Mopsy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Flopsy | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 7 | Cotton | Cotton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 tail | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Cotton | punct |
| 9 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 milk | cc |
| 13 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bread | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 blackberries | cc |
| 15 | blackberries | blackberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bread | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 supper | case |
| 17 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blackberries | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Flopsy | bread and milk and blackberries for supper | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
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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