The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 156

All sorts of delightful things he planned, and while the Boy lay half asleep he crept up close to the pillow and whispered them in his ear.

Who acts: Boy, sorts · What happens: plan, lie, creep up, whisper, sort · To what, where: delightful things, sorts, ear

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, sorts), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 sorts	det
2	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 crept	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 things	case
4	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sorts	nmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 planned	nsubj
7	planned	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 things	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 crept	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 crept	cc
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 lay	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Boy	det
12	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 lay	nsubj
13	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 crept	advcl
14	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	15 asleep	advmod
15	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lay	xcomp
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 crept	nsubj
17	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	up	up	ADV	_	19 close	advmod
19	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 crept	xcomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 pillow	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pillow	det
22	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 close	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 whispered	cc
24	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 crept	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 whispered	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 ear	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 ear	nmod:poss
28	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 whispered	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	plan	past	Boy	delightful things not said here			vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
2	lie	past	the Boy			asleep property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	creep up	past	all sorts of delightful things			close property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	whisper speech: assert	past	all sorts of delightful things not said here	sorts = sort	Boy's ear		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
5	sort			delightful things			nom sort «cognition 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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