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title: But round the end of a cucumber frame, whom should he meet but Mr. M… — The Tale of Peter Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: But round the end of a cucumber frame, whom should he meet but Mr. McGregor! Who acts: Peter. 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 16

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But round the end of a cucumber frame, whom should he meet but Mr. McGregor!

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**Who acts:** Peter · **What happens:** meet

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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 (Peter), 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:pg14838:2:16
# text = But round the end of a cucumber frame, whom should he meet but Mr. McGregor!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	round	round	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	cucumber	cucumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:desc	_	_
16	McGregor	McGregor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | should | Peter |  |  |  | round the end of a cucumber frame |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Co-Agent |

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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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