The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 229
And while he was playing, two rabbits crept out from the bracken and peeped at him.
Who acts: Boy, two rabbits · What happens: play, creep out, peep · To what, where: bracken
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, two rabbits), 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 | _ | 9 crept | cc |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 playing | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 playing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 playing | aux |
| 5 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 crept | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 playing | punct |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 rabbits | nummod |
| 8 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 crept | nsubj |
| 9 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 crept | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 bracken | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bracken | det |
| 13 | bracken | bracken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crept | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 peeped | cc |
| 15 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 crept | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 peeped | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past · progressive | Boy | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | creep out | past | two rabbits | the bracken | out property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bracken=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | peep | past | two rabbits not said here | at Boy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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