The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 185
The sack had been left untied, and so by wriggling a bit he was able to get his head through the opening and look out.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: leave, wriggle, be, get, look out · To what, where: sack, bit, head, opening
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sack | det |
| 2 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 left | aux:pass |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | untied | untied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 left | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 able | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 able | cc |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 able | advmod |
| 10 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 wriggling | mark |
| 11 | wriggling | wriggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 able | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bit | det |
| 13 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wriggling | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 able | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 able | cop |
| 16 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 left | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 get | mark |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 able | xcomp |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obj |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 opening | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 opening | det |
| 23 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 look | cc |
| 25 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 get | conj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 look | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect · passive | the sack | untied property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wriggle | gerund | Boy not said here | a bit | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Boy | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | Boy not said here | Boy's head | the opening | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | look out | infinitive | Boy not said here | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: 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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