The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 127

He came so close this time that his long whiskers brushed the Velveteen Rabbit's ear, and then he wrinkled his nose suddenly and flattened his ears and jumped backwards.

Who acts: Rabbit, long whiskers · What happens: come, brush, wrinkle, flatten, jump · To what, where: ear, nose, ears

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, long whiskers), 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 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 close	advmod
4	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	xcomp
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 brushed	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 whiskers	nmod:poss
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 whiskers	amod
10	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 brushed	nsubj
11	brushed	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 time	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Rabbit	det
13	Velveteen	Velveteen	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Rabbit	compound
14	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 ear	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Rabbit	case
16	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brushed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wrinkled	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wrinkled	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 wrinkled	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wrinkled	nsubj
21	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 nose	nmod:poss
23	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wrinkled	obj
24	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	21 wrinkled	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 flattened	cc
26	flattened	flatten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 wrinkled	conj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 ears	nmod:poss
28	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 flattened	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 jumped	cc
30	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 flattened	conj
31	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	30 jumped	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Rabbit		time	close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	brush	past	Rabbit's long whiskers	the Velveteen Rabbit's ear			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
3	wrinkle	past	Rabbit	Rabbit's nose	then	suddenly property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent nose=Patient
4	flatten	past	Rabbit not said here	Rabbit's ears			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient
5	jump	past	Rabbit not said here			backwards property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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 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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