The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 15
And then, feeling rather sick, he went to look for some parsley.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: feel, go, look
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 feeling | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 feeling | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 feeling | punct |
| 4 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 6 sick | advmod |
| 6 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feeling | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 feeling | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 feeling | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 look | mark |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | xcomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 parsley | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 parsley | det |
| 14 | parsley | parsley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 look | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feeling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | then | sick property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Peter | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | for some parsley | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for parsley=Theme |
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.
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