The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 135

Just then there was a sound of footsteps, and the Boy ran past near them, and with a stamp of feet and a flash of white tails the two strange rabbits disappeared.

Who acts: Boy, two strange rabbits, white tails · What happens: be, disappear, flash

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 (Boy, two strange rabbits, white tails), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	4 was	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 was	advmod
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ran	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sound	det
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 footsteps	case
8	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sound	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ran	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ran	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Boy	det
12	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 ran	nsubj
13	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	past	past	ADV	_	13 ran	advmod
15	near	near	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ran	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 disappeared	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 disappeared	cc
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 stamp	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 stamp	det
21	stamp	stamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 disappeared	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 feet	case
23	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stamp	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 flash	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 flash	det
26	flash	flash	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stamp	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 tails	case
28	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tails	amod
29	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 flash	nmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 rabbits	det
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 rabbits	nummod
32	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 rabbits	amod
33	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 disappeared	nsubj
34	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ran	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Boy	near footsteps = footstep; past, run property	tree rules
2	disappear	past	the two strange rabbits	with a stamp of feet and a flash of white tails	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	flash		white tails		nom flash «event intransitive»: of=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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