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title: Then old Mrs. Rabbit took a basket and her umbrella, and went throug… — The Tale of Peter Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: Then old Mrs. Rabbit took a basket and her umbrella, and went through the wood to the baker's. Who acts: old Mrs. Rabbit. A sentence of «The Tale of Peter Rabbit» by Beatrix Potter, Frederick Warne, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 10

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Then old Mrs. Rabbit took a basket and her umbrella, and went through the wood to the baker's.

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**Who acts:** old Mrs. Rabbit · **What happens:** take, go · **To what, where:** basket, wood

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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 (old Mrs. Rabbit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14838:2:10
# text = Then old Mrs. Rabbit took a basket and her umbrella, and went through the wood to the baker's.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	baker	baker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | old Mrs. Rabbit | a basket and Mrs.'s umbrella |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | old Mrs. Rabbit *not said here* |  |  | the wood |  | to the baker | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through wood=Initial\_Location to baker=Destination |

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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.

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**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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