The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 70

Spring came, and they had long days in the garden, for wherever the Boy went the Rabbit went too.

Who acts: Spring, hands, Boy, Rabbit · What happens: come, have, go · To what, where: garden

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 (Spring, hands, Boy, Rabbit), 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	Spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 had	cc
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 days	amod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 garden	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 garden	det
11	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 went	mark
14	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	17 went	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Boy	det
16	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Rabbit	det
19	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	nsubj
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 went	ccomp
21	too	too	ADV	_	20 went	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Spring				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	hands = hand	the garden	day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	the Boy			wherever property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	past	the Rabbit				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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