The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 221

And he might have sat there a long time, too shy to move, if just then something hadn't tickled his nose, and before he thought what he was doing he lifted his hind toe to scratch it.

Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: sit, move, not tickle, think, do, lift · To what, where: something, hind toe, toe · 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 (Rabbit), 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	_	5 sat	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 sat	aux
5	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sat	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shy	punct
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 shy	advmod
12	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sat	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 move	mark
14	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 shy	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tickled	punct
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 tickled	mark
17	just	just	ADV	_	18 then	advmod
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 tickled	advmod
19	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 tickled	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 tickled	aux
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 tickled	advmod
22	tickled	tickle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sat	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 nose	nmod:poss
24	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tickled	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 thought	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 thought	cc
27	before	before	SCONJ	_	29 thought	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 thought	nsubj
29	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	advcl
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 doing	obj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 doing	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 doing	aux
33	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 thought	ccomp
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 lifted	nsubj
35	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 thought	ccomp
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 toe	nmod:poss
37	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 toe	amod
38	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 lifted	obj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 scratch	mark
40	scratch	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 lifted	advcl
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 scratch	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sit	might · perfect	Rabbit		there	time	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	move	to-infinitive	Rabbit not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	not tickle a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		something		then	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer nose=Result
4	think speech: other	past	Rabbit				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	do	past · progressive	Rabbit				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	lift	past	Rabbit	Rabbit's hind toe			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Theme
7	scratch	to-infinitive	Rabbit not said here	toe			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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