The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 139
But there was no answer, only the little ants ran to and fro, and the bracken swayed gently where the two strangers had passed.
Who acts: little ants, bracken · What happens: be, fro, sway, pass · To what, where: two strangers
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 (little ants, bracken), 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 | _ | 3 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ran | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 answer | det |
| 5 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 ants | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ants | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ants | amod |
| 10 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ran | nsubj |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 ran | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fro | cc |
| 14 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ran | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 swayed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 swayed | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bracken | det |
| 18 | bracken | bracken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 swayed | nsubj |
| 19 | swayed | sway | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ran | conj |
| 20 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 19 swayed | advmod |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 passed | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 strangers | det |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 strangers | nummod |
| 24 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 passed | aux |
| 26 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 swayed | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the little ants | run property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fro | infinitive | the little ants not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sway | past | the bracken | gently property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pass | past · perfect · passive | the two strangers | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
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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