The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 153

Strange people came and went in the nursery, and a light burned all night and through it all the little Velveteen Rabbit lay there, hidden from sight under the bedclothes, and he never stirred, for he was afraid that if they found him some one might take him away, and he knew that the Boy needed him.

Who acts: Strange people, light, Rabbit, people, one, Boy · What happens: come, go, burn, lie, hide, not stir · To what, where: nursery, sight, Rabbit · 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 (Strange people, light, Rabbit, people), 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	Strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 went	cc
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 nursery	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nursery	det
8	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 burned	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 burned	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 light	det
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 burned	nsubj
13	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 burned	obl:unmarked
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lay	cc
17	through	through	SCONJ	_	24 lay	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lay	nsubj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 lay	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Rabbit	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Rabbit	amod
22	Velveteen	Velveteen	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Rabbit	compound
23	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 lay	nsubj
24	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 burned	conj
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 lay	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hidden	punct
27	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 lay	conj
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 sight	case
29	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hidden	obl
30	under	under	ADP	_	32 bedclothes	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bedclothes	det
32	bedclothes	bedclothe	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sight	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 stirred	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 stirred	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 stirred	nsubj
36	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	37 stirred	advmod
37	stirred	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 afraid	punct
39	for	for	SCONJ	_	42 afraid	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 afraid	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 afraid	cop
42	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 stirred	conj
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 found	mark
44	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 found	mark
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 found	nsubj
46	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 afraid	advcl
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 found	obj
48	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	49 one	det
49	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 take	nsubj
50	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 take	aux
51	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 found	ccomp
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 take	obj
53	away	away	ADV	_	51 take	advmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 knew	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 knew	cc
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 knew	nsubj
57	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
58	that	that	SCONJ	_	61 needed	mark
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 Boy	det
60	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	61 needed	nsubj
61	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 knew	ccomp
62	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 needed	obj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Strange people					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	Strange people not said here		the nursery			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in nursery=Location
3	burn	past	a light			night		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lie	past	light		there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hide	participle	light not said here		sight under the bedclothes			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from sight=Beneficiary
6	not stir	past	Rabbit					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	past	Rabbit				afraid property	tree rules
8	find a condition, not said to happen	past	people	Rabbit				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
9	take away	might	some one	Rabbit			away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
10	know	past	Rabbit					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
11	need	past	the Boy	Rabbit				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot 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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