The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 178
And so the little Rabbit was put into a sack with the old picture-books and a lot of rubbish, and carried out to the end of the garden behind the fowl-house.
What happens: put, carry out · To what, where: little Rabbit, sack, fowl house
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 put | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 put | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Rabbit | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Rabbit | amod |
| 5 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 put | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | aux:pass |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 sack | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sack | det |
| 10 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 books | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 books | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 books | amod |
| 14 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 books | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 picture | punct |
| 16 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 put | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lot | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lot | det |
| 19 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 books | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 rubbish | case |
| 21 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lot | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 carried | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 carried | cc |
| 24 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | parataxis |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 carried | compound:prt |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 end | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 end | det |
| 28 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 carried | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 garden | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 garden | det |
| 31 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 end | nmod |
| 32 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 36 house | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 house | det |
| 34 | fowl | fowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 house | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 fowl | punct |
| 36 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 carried | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | the little Rabbit | a sack | with the old picture books and a lot of rubbish | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | |||
| 2 | carry out | past | the fowl house | to the end of the garden | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: 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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