The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 155

But he snuggled down patiently, and looked forward to the time when the Boy should be well again, and they would go out in the garden amongst the flowers and the butterflies and play splendid games in the raspberry thicket like they used to.

Who acts: Rabbit, Boy, people · What happens: snuggle down, look, be, go out, play, use · To what, where: garden, splendid games, raspberry thicket

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 (Rabbit, Boy, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 snuggled	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 snuggled	nsubj
3	snuggled	snuggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 snuggled	advmod
5	patiently	patiently	ADV	_	3 snuggled	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 looked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 looked	cc
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 snuggled	conj
9	forward	forward	ADV	_	8 looked	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 time	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looked	obl
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 again	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Boy	det
15	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 again	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 again	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 again	cop
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 again	advmod
19	again	again	ADV	_	8 looked	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 go	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 go	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 go	aux
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 snuggled	conj
25	out	out	ADV	_	24 go	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 garden	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 garden	det
28	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
29	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	31 flowers	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 flowers	det
31	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 go	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 butterflies	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 butterflies	det
34	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 flowers	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 play	cc
36	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	3 snuggled	conj
37	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 games	amod
38	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 play	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	42 thicket	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 thicket	det
41	raspberry	raspberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 thicket	compound
42	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 play	obl
43	like	like	SCONJ	_	45 used	mark
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 used	nsubj
45	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 play	advcl
46	to	to	PART	_	45 used	xcomp
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 snuggled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snuggle down	past	Rabbit				down, patiently property	tree rules
2	look	past	Rabbit not said here			time	forward property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	should	the Boy				again, well property	tree rules
4	go out	would	people		the garden		amongst the flowers and the butterflies; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	play	present	Rabbit not said here	splendid games	the raspberry thicket			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
6	use	past	people					vn eat-39.1 «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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