The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 15
For at least two hours the Boy loved him, and then Aunts and Uncles came to dinner, and there was a great rustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels, and in the excitement of looking at all the new presents the Velveteen Rabbit was forgotten.
Who acts: Boy, Aunts, great rustling, excitement · What happens: love, come, be, look, forget, rustle · To what, where: Rabbit, dinner, Velveteen Rabbit, tissue paper
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, Aunts, great rustling, excitement), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 hours | case |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 least | case |
| 3 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 two | nmod |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hours | nummod |
| 5 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 loved | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Boy | det |
| 7 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 loved | nsubj |
| 8 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 loved | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 came | advmod |
| 13 | Aunts | aunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 came | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Uncles | cc |
| 15 | Uncles | uncle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Aunts | conj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 loved | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 dinner | case |
| 18 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 was | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 was | cc |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 was | expl |
| 22 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 loved | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 rustling | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 rustling | amod |
| 25 | rustling | rustling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 was | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 paper | case |
| 27 | tissue | tissue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 paper | compound |
| 28 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rustling | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 unwrapping | cc |
| 30 | unwrapping | unwrapping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 paper | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 parcels | case |
| 32 | parcels | parcel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 unwrapping | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 excitement | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 excitement | cc |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 excitement | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 excitement | det |
| 37 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 loved | conj |
| 38 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 39 looking | mark |
| 39 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 excitement | acl |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 44 presents | case |
| 41 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 presents | det:predet |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 presents | det |
| 43 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 presents | amod |
| 44 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 looking | obl |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Rabbit | det |
| 46 | Velveteen | Velveteen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Rabbit | compound |
| 47 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 forgotten | nsubj |
| 48 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 49 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 presents | acl:relcl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | the Boy | Rabbit | hour | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come | past | Aunts and Uncles | dinner | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dinner=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | be | past | a great rustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | gerund | the excitement not said here | at all new presents | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at present=Theme | ||||
| 5 | forget | past · passive | the Velveteen Rabbit | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | rustle | tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels | nom rustling «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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