The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 67

And they had splendid games together, in whispers, when Nana had gone away to her supper and left the night-light burning on the mantelpiece.

Who acts: tunnels, Nana, night light · What happens: have, go away, leave, burn · To what, where: splendid games, whispers, supper, night light, mantelpiece

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 (tunnels, Nana, night light), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg11757:50): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 had	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 games	amod
5	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	together	together	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 whispers	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 whispers	case
9	whispers	whisper	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gone	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 gone	advmod
12	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 gone	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	aux
14	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 had	advcl
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 gone	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 supper	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 supper	nmod:poss
18	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gone	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 left	cc
20	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 gone	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 light	det
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 light	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 night	punct
24	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 left	obj
25	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 left	xcomp
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 mantelpiece	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 mantelpiece	det
28	mantelpiece	mantelpiece	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 burning	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	tunnels = tunnel	splendid games	whispers	together property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Patient
2	go away	past · perfect	Nana		Nana's supper	away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to supper=Initial_Location
3	leave	participle	Nana not said here	the night light			tree rules
4	burn	gerund	the night light not said here		the mantelpiece		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mantelpiece=Location

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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