The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 7

'Now my dears,' said old Mrs. Rabbit one morning, 'you may go into the fields or down the lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.'

Who acts: dears, you, Father, Mrs. · What happens: say, go, not go, have, put · To what, where: old Mrs. Rabbit, fields, garden, accident, Father, pie · 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 (dears, you, Father, Mrs.), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 said	advmod
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dears	nmod:poss
4	dears	dear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dears	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 dears	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Rabbit	amod
9	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Rabbit	compound
10	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 morning	nummod
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 go	nsubj
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 fields	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fields	det
20	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 go	obl
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 lane	cc
22	down	down	ADP	_	24 lane	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lane	det
24	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fields	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 go	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 go	cc
27	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 go	aux
28	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 go	advmod
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 go	conj
30	into	into	ADP	_	34 garden	case
31	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 McGregor	nmod:desc
32	McGregor	McGregor	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 garden	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 McGregor	case
34	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 go	obl
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 had	punct
36	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 Father	nmod:poss
37	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 had	nsubj
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 go	parataxis
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 accident	det
40	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 had	obj
41	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 had	advmod
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 put	punct
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 put	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 put	aux:pass
45	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	conj
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 pie	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 pie	det
48	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 put	obl
49	by	by	ADP	_	50 Mrs.	case
50	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 put	obl
51	McGregor	McGregor	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 Mrs.	flat
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
53	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	my dears	old Mrs. Rabbit		now; morning	tree rules
2	go	may	you		the fields or the lane		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_Location
3	not go	infinitive · do-support	you not said here		McGregor Mr.'s garden		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location
4	have	past	your Father	a accident	there		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accident=Patient
5	put	past · passive	Mrs.	Father	a pie		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in pie=Destination

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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