The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 136
"Come back and play with me!" called the little Rabbit. "
Who acts: you · What happens: come back, play, call · 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 (you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 Come | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 play | cc |
| 5 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Come | conj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 play | obl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Come | advcl |
| 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 | 10 called | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | play in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | with me | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | call speech: express | participle | you not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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