The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 216
And she kissed the little Rabbit again and put him down on the grass.
Who acts: fairy · What happens: kiss, put down · To what, where: little Rabbit, Rabbit, grass
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 (fairy), 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 kissed | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kissed | nsubj |
| 3 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Rabbit | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Rabbit | amod |
| 6 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 kissed | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 kissed | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 put | cc |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 kissed | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | obj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 put | compound:prt |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 grass | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 grass | det |
| 14 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | fairy | the little Rabbit | again | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | put down | infinitive | fairy not said here | Rabbit | the grass | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on grass=Destination |
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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