The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 180

He had the potatoes to dig and the green peas to gather, but next morning he promised to come quite early and burn the whole lot.

Who acts: Rabbit, potatoes · What happens: have, dig, gather, promise, come, burn · To what, where: potatoes, whole lot

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 (Rabbit, potatoes), 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 potatoes	det
4	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 dig	mark
6	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 peas	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 peas	det
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 peas	amod
10	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dig	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 gather	mark
12	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 peas	acl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 promised	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 promised	cc
15	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 morning	amod
16	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 promised	obl:unmarked
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 promised	nsubj
18	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 come	mark
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 promised	xcomp
21	quite	quite	ADV	_	22 early	advmod
22	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 come	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 burn	cc
24	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 come	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lot	det
26	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lot	amod
27	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 burn	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Rabbit	the potatoes			tree rules
2	dig	to-infinitive	the potatoes not said here				vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	gather	to-infinitive	the potatoes not said here				vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	promise speech: promise	past	Rabbit		morning		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	Rabbit not said here			early property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	burn	infinitive	Rabbit not said here	the whole lot			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lot=Theme

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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