The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 125
But all the while he was longing to dance, for a funny new tickly feeling ran through him, and he felt he would give anything in the world to be able to jump about like these rabbits did.
Who acts: while, funny new tickly feeling, Rabbit, rabbits · What happens: long, dance, run, feel, give, be · To what, where: anything, world
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 (while, funny new tickly feeling, Rabbit, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 longing | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 while | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 while | det |
| 4 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 longing | nsubj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 longing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 longing | aux |
| 7 | longing | long | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 ran | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 dance | mark |
| 9 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 longing | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 longing | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 feeling | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 feeling | det |
| 13 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feeling | amod |
| 14 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feeling | amod |
| 15 | tickly | tickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feeling | amod |
| 16 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ran | nsubj |
| 17 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ran | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 felt | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 felt | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 felt | nsubj |
| 23 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ran | conj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 give | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 give | aux |
| 26 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 felt | ccomp |
| 27 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 26 give | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 world | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 world | det |
| 30 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 anything | nmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 able | mark |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 able | cop |
| 33 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 give | advcl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 jump | mark |
| 35 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 able | xcomp |
| 36 | about | about | ADV | _ | 35 jump | advmod |
| 37 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 40 did | mark |
| 38 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 39 rabbits | det |
| 39 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 did | nsubj |
| 40 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 jump | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | long | past · progressive | all while | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | dance not said to happen | to-infinitive | all while not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | past | a funny new tickly feeling | through Rabbit | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through he=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | Rabbit | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | give | would | Rabbit | anything | the world | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | |||
| 6 | is | to-infinitive | Rabbit not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | jump about | to-infinitive | Rabbit not said here | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | do | past | this rabbits | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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