The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 161
They had carried the Boy out on to the balcony, wrapped in a shawl, and the little Rabbit lay tangled up among the bedclothes, thinking.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: carry, wrap, tangle up, think · To what, where: windows, balcony, shawl, little Rabbit
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | aux |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Boy | det |
| 5 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl:agent |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 Boy | compound:prt |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 balcony | case |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 balcony | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 balcony | det |
| 10 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wrapped | punct |
| 12 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 carried | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 shawl | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 shawl | det |
| 15 | shawl | shawl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wrapped | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tangled | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 tangled | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Rabbit | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Rabbit | amod |
| 20 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 tangled | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 tangled | aux:pass |
| 22 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 carried | parataxis |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 tangled | compound:prt |
| 24 | among | among | ADP | _ | 26 bedclothes | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bedclothes | det |
| 26 | bedclothes | bedclothe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 tangled | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 thinking | punct |
| 28 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 tangled | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · perfect · passive | the Boy | windows = window | the balcony | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | wrap | participle | the Boy not said here | a shawl | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in shawl=Destination | ||||
| 3 | tangle up | past · passive | the little Rabbit | among the bedclothes | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | gerund | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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