The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 62
And she dragged the Rabbit out by one ear, and put him into the Boy's arms.
Who acts: door · What happens: drag out, put · To what, where: Rabbit, arms
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 (door), 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 dragged | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dragged | nsubj |
| 3 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Rabbit | det |
| 5 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dragged | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 dragged | compound:prt |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 ear | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 ear | nummod |
| 9 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dragged | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 put | cc |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dragged | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 put | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 arms | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Boy | det |
| 16 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 arms | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Boy | case |
| 18 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 put | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag out | past | door | the Rabbit | by one ear | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | door not said here | Rabbit | the Boy's arms | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |
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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