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title: Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail, who were good little bunnies, went do… — The Tale of Peter Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail, who were good little bunnies, went down the lane to gather blackberries: Who acts: Cottontail, Flopsy. 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 12

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Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail, who were good little bunnies, went down the lane to gather blackberries:

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**Who acts:** Cottontail, Flopsy · **What happens:** be, go down, gather · **To what, where:** good little bunnies, lane, blackberries

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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 (Cottontail, Flopsy), 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:pg14838:2:12
# text = Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail, who were good little bunnies, went down the lane to gather blackberries:
1	Flopsy	Flopsy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Mopsy	Mopsy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
6	Cottontail	Cottontail	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bunnies	bunny	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lane	lane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	blackberries	blackberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Cottontail and good little bunnies | good little bunnies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go down** | past | Flopsy | the lane |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient lane=Extent |
| 3 | **gather** | to-infinitive | Flopsy *not said here* | blackberries |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blackberry=Theme |

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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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