The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 158
He was able to sit up in bed and look at picture-books, while the little Rabbit cuddled close at his side.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: be, sit up, look, cuddle · To what, where: little Rabbit, bed, side
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 able | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 able | cop |
| 3 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 sit | mark |
| 5 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 able | xcomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 sit | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 bed | case |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sit | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 look | cc |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sit | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 books | case |
| 12 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 books | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 picture | punct |
| 14 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 look | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Rabbit | punct |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 Rabbit | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Rabbit | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Rabbit | amod |
| 19 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sit | obl |
| 20 | cuddled | cuddle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 Rabbit | acl |
| 21 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 cuddled | advmod |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 side | nmod:poss |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cuddled | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Boy | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit up | to-infinitive | Boy not said here | the little Rabbit | bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | |||
| 3 | look | infinitive | Boy not said here | at picture books | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at book=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cuddle | participle | the little Rabbit not said here | Boy's side | close property | vn marry-36.2 «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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