The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 122
And he began to whirl round and dance, till the little Rabbit got quite dizzy.
Who acts: Rabbit, little Rabbit · What happens: begin, whirl, dance, get
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 (Rabbit, little Rabbit), 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 | _ | 3 began | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 whirl | mark |
| 5 | whirl | whirl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | round | round | ADV | _ | 5 whirl | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dance | cc |
| 8 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 whirl | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 got | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Rabbit | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Rabbit | amod |
| 13 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 got | nsubj |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 dizzy | advmod |
| 16 | dizzy | dizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 got | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Rabbit | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | whirl | to-infinitive | Rabbit not said here | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dance | infinitive | Rabbit not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get | past | the little Rabbit | dizzy property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «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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