The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 184

And while the Boy was asleep, dreaming of the seaside, the little Rabbit lay among the old picture-books in the corner behind the fowl-house, and he felt very lonely.

Who acts: Boy, little Rabbit · What happens: be, dream, lie, feel · To what, where: corner

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, little Rabbit), 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	_	16 lay	cc
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 asleep	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Boy	det
4	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 asleep	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asleep	cop
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lay	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dreaming	punct
8	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 asleep	advcl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 seaside	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 seaside	det
11	seaside	seaside	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dreaming	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 asleep	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Rabbit	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Rabbit	amod
15	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 lay	nsubj
16	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	among	among	ADP	_	22 books	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 books	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 books	amod
20	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 books	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 picture	punct
22	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lay	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 corner	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 corner	det
25	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lay	obl
26	behind	behind	ADP	_	30 house	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 house	det
28	fowl	fowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 house	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 fowl	punct
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 corner	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 felt	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 felt	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 felt	nsubj
34	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 lay	conj
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 lonely	advmod
36	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 felt	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Boy		asleep property	tree rules
2	dream	gerund	the Boy not said here		of the seaside	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	lie	past	the little Rabbit	the corner behind the fowl house	among the old picture books	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among book=Location
4	feel	past	Boy		lonely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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