The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 64
At first he found it rather uncomfortable, for the Boy hugged him very tight, and sometimes he rolled over on him, and sometimes he pushed him so far under the pillow that the Rabbit could scarcely breathe.
Who acts: Rabbit, Boy · What happens: find, hug, roll over, push, breathe · To what, where: Rabbit, Boy, pillow
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, Boy), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 found | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 uncomfortable | nsubj |
| 6 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 7 uncomfortable | advmod |
| 7 | uncomfortable | uncomfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 found | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hugged | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 hugged | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Boy | det |
| 11 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 hugged | nsubj |
| 12 | hugged | hug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hugged | obj |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 tight | advmod |
| 15 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hugged | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rolled | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 rolled | cc |
| 18 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 rolled | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rolled | nsubj |
| 20 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | parataxis |
| 21 | over | over | ADV | _ | 20 rolled | advmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rolled | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 pushed | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 pushed | cc |
| 26 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 28 pushed | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 pushed | nsubj |
| 28 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 pushed | obj |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 far | advmod |
| 31 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 pushed | advmod |
| 32 | under | under | ADP | _ | 34 pillow | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 pillow | det |
| 34 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pushed | obl |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 breathe | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Rabbit | det |
| 37 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 breathe | nsubj |
| 38 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 breathe | aux |
| 39 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 40 breathe | advmod |
| 40 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 pillow | acl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Rabbit | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hug | past | the Boy | Rabbit | tight property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | roll over | past | Rabbit | on Boy; over, sometimes property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | push | past | Rabbit | Boy | the pillow | far, sometimes property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme under pillow=Trajectory | ||
| 5 | breathe | could | the Rabbit | the pillow not said here | scarcely property | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pillow=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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