The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 55

Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.

Who acts: person, playthings · What happens: take, lie, go, swoop, hustle away, notice · To what, where: notice, playthings, cupboards

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 (person, playthings), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 took	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 notice	det
5	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 playthings	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 playthings	det
8	playthings	plaything	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 notice	nmod
9	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 playthings	acl
10	about	about	ADV	_	9 lying	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sometimes	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sometimes	cc
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 took	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 reason	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 reason	case
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 reason	det
17	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	parataxis
18	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 reason	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
22	swooping	swoop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 went	xcomp
23	about	about	ADV	_	22 swooping	advmod
24	like	like	ADP	_	27 wind	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 wind	det
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 wind	amod
27	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 swooping	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hustled	cc
29	hustled	hustle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 went	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 hustled	obj
31	away	away	ADV	_	29 hustled	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 cupboards	case
33	cupboards	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hustled	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	person	no notice of the playthings		sometimes property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
2	lie	gerund	the playthings not said here			about property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	person				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	swoop	gerund	person not said here			like a great wind; about property	tree rules
5	hustle away	past	person not said here	playthings = plaything	cupboards	away property	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	notice			the playthings			nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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