The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 71
He had rides in the wheelbarrow, and picnics on the grass, and lovely fairy huts built for him under the raspberry canes behind the flower border.
Who acts: Rabbit, lovely fairy huts, raspberry · What happens: have, build, cane · To what, where: rides, wheelbarrow, flower border
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, lovely fairy huts, raspberry), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | rides | ride | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 wheelbarrow | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wheelbarrow | det |
| 6 | wheelbarrow | wheelbarrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 picnics | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 picnics | cc |
| 9 | picnics | picnic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | parataxis |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 grass | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 grass | det |
| 12 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 picnics | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 built | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 built | cc |
| 15 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 huts | amod |
| 16 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 huts | amod |
| 17 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 built | nsubj |
| 18 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 built | obl |
| 21 | under | under | ADP | _ | 24 canes | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 raspberry | det |
| 23 | raspberry | raspberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 canes | nsubj |
| 24 | canes | cane | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 built | advcl |
| 25 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 28 border | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 border | det |
| 27 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 border | compound |
| 28 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 canes | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Rabbit | rides | the wheelbarrow | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ride=Patient | |||
| 2 | build | past | lovely fairy huts | for Rabbit | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | cane | present | the raspberry | the flower border | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind border=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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