The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 224

He gave one leap and the joy of using those hind legs was so great that he went springing about the turf on them, jumping sideways and whirling round as the others did, and he grew so excited that when at last he did stop to look for the Fairy she had gone.

Who acts: Rabbit, joy, others, fairy · What happens: give, use, be, go, spring, jump · To what, where: one leap, hind legs, Fairy

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, joy, others, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 leap	nummod
4	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 great	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 joy	det
7	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 great	nsubj
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 using	mark
9	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 joy	acl
10	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 legs	det
11	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 legs	amod
12	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 using	obj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 great	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 great	advmod
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gave	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 went	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 great	advcl
19	springing	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 went	xcomp
20	about	about	ADP	_	22 turf	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 turf	det
22	turf	turf	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 springing	obl
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 turf	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 jumping	punct
26	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 springing	advcl
27	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	26 jumping	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 whirling	cc
29	whirling	whirl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 jumping	conj
30	round	round	ADV	_	29 whirling	advmod
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 did	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 others	det
33	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 did	nsubj
34	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 whirling	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 grew	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 grew	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 grew	nsubj
38	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 stop	advcl
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 excited	advmod
40	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 grew	xcomp
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 last	mark
42	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	44 last	advmod
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 last	case
44	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 excited	advcl
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 stop	nsubj
46	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 stop	aux
47	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gave	parataxis
48	to	to	PART	_	49 look	mark
49	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 stop	xcomp
50	for	for	ADP	_	52 Fairy	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 Fairy	det
52	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 look	obl
53	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 gone	nsubj
54	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 gone	aux
55	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	52 Fairy	acl:relcl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	Rabbit	one leap		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leap=Theme
2	use	gerund	the joy not said here	that hind legs		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
3	is	past	the joy		great property	tree rules
4	go	past	Rabbit			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	spring	gerund	Rabbit not said here		about the turf on legs	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about turf=Trajectory
6	jump	gerund	Rabbit not said here		sideways property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	whirl	gerund	Rabbit not said here		round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
8	do	past	the others			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	grow	past	Rabbit		excited property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	stop	past · do-support	Rabbit			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
11	look	to-infinitive	Rabbit not said here		for the Fairy	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for fairy=Theme
12	go	past · perfect	fairy	the Fairy not said here		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fairy=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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