The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 18

Peter was most dreadfully frightened; he rushed all over the garden, for he had forgotten the way back to the gate.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: be, rush, forget · To what, where: garden, way

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	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 frightened	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	cop
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 frightened	advmod
4	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	_	5 frightened	advmod
5	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 rushed	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rushed	nsubj
8	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	parataxis
9	all	all	ADV	_	12 garden	advmod
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 garden	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 garden	det
12	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rushed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 forgotten	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 forgotten	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 forgotten	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 forgotten	aux
17	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 rushed	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 way	det
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 forgotten	obl:unmarked
20	back	back	ADV	_	17 forgotten	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 gate	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 gate	det
23	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 back	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Peter			dreadfully, frightened property	tree rules
2	rush	past	Peter		the garden		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over garden=Trajectory
3	forget	past · perfect	Peter	the way			tree rules

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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