The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 145
But they never returned, and presently the sun sank lower and the little white moths fluttered out, and the Boy came and carried him home.
Who acts: strangers, sun, little white moths, Boy · What happens: not return, sink, flutter out, come, carry · To what, where: Boy
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 (strangers, sun, little white moths, Boy), 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 | _ | 4 returned | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 returned | advmod |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sank | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sank | cc |
| 7 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 10 sank | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sun | det |
| 9 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sank | nsubj |
| 10 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | advcl |
| 11 | lower | low | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 sank | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fluttered | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 moths | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 moths | amod |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 moths | amod |
| 16 | moths | moth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fluttered | nsubj |
| 17 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sank | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 fluttered | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 came | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Boy | det |
| 22 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 carried | cc |
| 25 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 came | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 carried | obj |
| 27 | home | home | ADV | _ | 25 carried | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not return | past | strangers = stranger | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sink | past | the sun | low, presently property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | flutter out | participle | the little white moths | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | past | the Boy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | carry | past | the Boy not said here | Boy | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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