The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 189

He seemed to see them all pass before him, each more beautiful than the other, the fairy huts in the flower-bed, the quiet evenings in the wood when he lay in the bracken and the little ants ran over his paws; the wonderful day when he first knew that he was Real.

Who acts: Boy, little ants · What happens: seem, see, pass, lie, run, know · To what, where: canes, bracken, paws · Speech: someone speaks here

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 ants), 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 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 pass	advcl
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 pass	advmod
7	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pass	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 beautiful	punct
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 beautiful	nsubj
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 beautiful	advmod
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pass	conj
14	than	than	ADP	_	16 other	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 other	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 beautiful	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 huts	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 huts	det
19	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 huts	amod
20	huts	hut	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 beautiful	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	25 bed	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bed	det
23	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bed	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 flower	punct
25	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 huts	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 evenings	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 evenings	det
28	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 evenings	amod
29	evenings	evening	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 huts	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 wood	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wood	det
32	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 evenings	nmod
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 lay	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 lay	nsubj
35	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 wood	acl:relcl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 bracken	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 bracken	det
38	bracken	bracken	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 lay	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 ran	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 ants	det
41	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 ants	amod
42	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 ran	nsubj
43	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 lay	conj
44	over	over	ADP	_	46 paws	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 paws	nmod:poss
46	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 ran	obl
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 knew	punct
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 day	det
49	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 day	amod
50	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 knew	obl:unmarked
51	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	54 knew	advmod
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 knew	nsubj
53	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	54 knew	advmod
54	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
55	that	that	SCONJ	_	58 Real	mark
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 Real	nsubj
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 Real	cop
58	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 knew	ccomp
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	Boy					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive		canes = cane				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	pass	present				before Boy		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before he=Location
4	lie	past	Boy		the bracken			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bracken=Location
5	run	past	the little ants		Boy's paws			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over paw=Trajectory
6	know	past	Boy			day	first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	past	Boy				real property	tree rules

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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