The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 34

Also he was very damp with sitting in that can.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: be, sit · To what, where: that

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	Also	also	ADV	_	5 damp	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 damp	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 damp	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 damp	advmod
5	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	SCONJ	_	7 sitting	mark
7	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 can	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 that	case
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 sitting	obl
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 damp	aux
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 damp	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can · past	Peter					damp property	tree rules
2	sit	gerund	Peter not said here			that			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in that=Location

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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