The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 111

He sat still in the bracken, and hoped that the other rabbits wouldn't notice.

Who acts: back, other rabbits · What happens: sit, hope, not notice · To what, where: bracken · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Velveteen Rabbit» by Margery Williams Bianco, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (back, other rabbits), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 bracken	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bracken	det
6	bracken	bracken	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hoped	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hoped	cc
9	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 notice	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rabbits	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rabbits	amod
13	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 notice	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 notice	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 notice	advmod
16	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hoped	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	sit	past	back	the bracken	still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bracken=Location
2	hope	past	back not said here			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	not notice	would	the other rabbits			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 Velveteen Rabbit» by Margery Williams Bianco, Project Gutenberg book 11757 (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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