The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 168

For the boy had often talked of the seaside, and he wanted very much to see the big waves coming in, and the tiny crabs, and the sand castles.

Who acts: Boy, tiny crabs, big waves, sand · What happens: talk, want, see, come in, castle · To what, where: tiny crabs, big waves

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, tiny crabs, big waves, sand), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 boy	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talked	obl
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 talked	aux
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 talked	advmod
6	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 seaside	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 seaside	det
9	seaside	seaside	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wanted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wanted	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wanted	nsubj
13	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 talked	parataxis
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADV	_	13 wanted	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wanted	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 waves	det
19	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 waves	amod
20	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 see	obj
21	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 waves	acl
22	in	in	ADV	_	21 coming	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 crabs	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 crabs	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 crabs	det
26	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 crabs	amod
27	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wanted	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 castles	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 castles	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sand	det
31	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 castles	nsubj
32	castles	castle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 wanted	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	talk	past · perfect			for the boy; of the seaside; often property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	past	Boy	the tiny crabs		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	the tiny crabs not said here	the big waves		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wave=Stimulus
4	come in	gerund	the big waves not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	castle	present	the sand			tree rules

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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