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title: Mr. McGregor came up with a sieve, which he intended to pop upon the… — The Tale of Peter Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. McGregor came up with a sieve, which he intended to pop upon the top of Peter; but Peter wriggled out just in time, leaving his jacket behind him. Who acts: McGregor, Peter. A sentence of «The Tale of Peter Rabbit» by Beatrix Potter, Frederick Warne, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 23

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Mr. McGregor came up with a sieve, which he intended to pop upon the top of Peter; but Peter wriggled out just in time, leaving his jacket behind him.

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**Who acts:** McGregor, Peter · **What happens:** come up, intend, pop, wriggle out, leave · **To what, where:** sieve, top, jacket

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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 (McGregor, 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:pg14838:2:23
# text = Mr. McGregor came up with a sieve, which he intended to pop upon the top of Peter; but Peter wriggled out just in time, leaving his jacket behind him.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	McGregor	McGregor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sieve	sieve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	intended	intend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	pop	pop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	wriggled	wriggle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	just	just	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | past | McGregor  Mr. |  |  |  |  | with a sieve | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **intend** | past | McGregor | a sieve |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pop** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | McGregor *not said here* |  |  | the top of Peter |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon top=Location |
| 4 | **wriggle out** | past | Peter |  |  |  | time |  | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **leave** | gerund | Peter *not said here* | Peter's jacket |  |  |  | behind Peter | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent jacket=Theme behind he=Location |

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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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