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title: Mr. McGregor hung up the little jacket and the shoes for a scare-cro… — The Tale of Peter Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. McGregor hung up the little jacket and the shoes for a scare-crow to frighten the blackbirds. Who acts: McGregor. 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 53

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Mr. McGregor hung up the little jacket and the shoes for a scare-crow to frighten the blackbirds.

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**Who acts:** McGregor · **What happens:** hang up, frighten · **To what, where:** little jacket, blackbirds

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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), 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:pg14838:2:53
# text = Mr. McGregor hung up the little jacket and the shoes for a scare-crow to frighten the blackbirds.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	McGregor	McGregor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	scare	scare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	frighten	frighten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	blackbirds	blackbird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang up** | past | McGregor  Mr. | the little jacket and the shoes |  |  |  | for a scare crow | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jacket=Patient |
| 2 | **frighten** | to-infinitive | McGregor  Mr. *not said here* | the blackbirds |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus blackbird=Experiencer |

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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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