The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 200

And she came close to the little Rabbit and gathered him up in her arms and kissed him on his velveteen nose that was all damp from crying.

Who acts: face, velveteen nose · What happens: come, gather up, kiss, be, cry · To what, where: Rabbit, arms, velveteen nose

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 (face, velveteen nose), 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	_	3 came	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 came	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 Rabbit	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Rabbit	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Rabbit	amod
8	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 close	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gathered	cc
10	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gathered	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 gathered	compound:prt
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 arms	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 arms	nmod:poss
15	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gathered	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 kissed	cc
17	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 kissed	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	22 nose	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 nose	nmod:poss
21	velveteen	velveteen	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 nose	compound
22	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kissed	obl
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 damp	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 damp	cop
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 damp	det
26	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 nose	acl:relcl
27	from	from	SCONJ	_	28 crying	mark
28	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 damp	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	face			close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	gather up	past	face not said here	Rabbit	face's arms		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	kiss	past	face not said here	Rabbit	Rabbit's velveteen nose		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
4	is	past	Rabbit's velveteen nose			damp property	tree rules
5	cry speech: express	gerund	Rabbit's velveteen nose not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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