--- title: Peter never stopped running or looked behind him till he got home to… — The Tale of Peter Rabbit · tree and pragmatics description: Peter never stopped running or looked behind him till he got home to the big fir-tree. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14838/2/54/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Tale of Peter Rabbit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14838/) / [Frederick Warne](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14838/2/) / 54 # The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 54 Peter never stopped running or looked behind him till he got home to the big fir-tree. **Who acts:** Peter · **What happens:** not stop, run, look, get 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. **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:pg14838:2:54 # text = Peter never stopped running or looked behind him till he got home to the big fir-tree. 1 Peter Peter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 behind behind ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 9 till till SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 12 home home ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 15 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 16 fir fir NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **stop** | past | Peter | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **run** | gerund | Peter *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **look** | past | Peter *not said here* | | | | | behind Peter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind he=Theme | | 4 | **get** | past | Peter | | | | | to the big fir tree *result*; home *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to tree=Result | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14838/2/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14838/2/55/) - ↑ back to [Frederick Warne](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14838/2/)