The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 33

Peter sat down to rest; he was out of breath and trembling with fright, and he had not the least idea which way to go.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: sit down, rest, be, tremble, have, go · To what, where: breath, least idea

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	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 rest	mark
5	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sat	advcl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 breath	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 breath	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 breath	cop
9	out	out	ADP	_	11 breath	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 breath	case
11	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 trembling	cc
13	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 breath	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 fright	case
15	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trembling	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 idea	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 idea	det
22	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 idea	amod
23	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
24	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	25 way	det
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 idea	nmod:unmarked
26	to	to	PART	_	27 go	mark
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 way	acl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	Peter			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rest	to-infinitive	Peter not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	Peter		breath		tree rules
4	tremble	gerund	Peter not said here			with fright	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	past	Peter	the least idea which way			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
6	go	to-infinitive	Peter not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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