The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 187
Near by he could see the thicket of raspberry canes, growing tall and close like a tropical jungle, in whose shadow he had played with the Boy on bygone mornings.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: see, grow, play · To what, where: thicket, shadow
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 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 1 Near | fixed |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thicket | det |
| 7 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 canes | case |
| 9 | raspberry | raspberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 canes | compound |
| 10 | canes | cane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thicket | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 growing | punct |
| 12 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 see | parataxis |
| 13 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 growing | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 close | cc |
| 15 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tall | conj |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 jungle | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 jungle | det |
| 18 | tropical | tropical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 jungle | amod |
| 19 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 close | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 shadow | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 shadow | case |
| 22 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 23 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 23 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | parataxis |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 played | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 played | aux |
| 26 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 shadow | acl:relcl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 Boy | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Boy | det |
| 29 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 played | obl |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 mornings | case |
| 31 | bygone | bygone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 mornings | amod |
| 32 | mornings | morning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 played | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | Boy | the thicket of raspberry canes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thicket=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | tall property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | play | past · perfect | Boy | shadow not said here | morning | with the Boy | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme with boy=Co-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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