The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 72

And once, when the Boy was called away suddenly to go out to tea, the Rabbit was left out on the lawn until long after dusk, and Nana had to come and look for him with the candle because the Boy couldn't go to sleep unless he was there.

Who acts: tea, Nana, Boy, Rabbit · What happens: call away, go out, leave out, have, come, look · To what, where: Boy, Rabbit, lawn

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 (tea, Nana, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 called	cc
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 called	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 called	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Boy	det
6	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 called	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 called	aux:pass
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 called	advmod
10	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 go	mark
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 called	advcl
13	out	out	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 tea	case
15	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 left	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Rabbit	det
18	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 left	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 left	aux:pass
20	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 tea	acl:relcl
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 left	compound:prt
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 lawn	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lawn	det
24	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 left	obl
25	until	until	ADP	_	26 long	case
26	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 left	obl
27	after	after	ADP	_	28 dusk	case
28	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 left	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 had	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 had	cc
31	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 had	nsubj
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 called	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 come	mark
34	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 had	xcomp
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 look	cc
36	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 come	conj
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 look	obl
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 candle	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 candle	det
41	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 look	obl
42	because	because	SCONJ	_	47 go	mark
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Boy	det
44	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 go	nsubj
45	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 go	aux
46	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 go	advmod
47	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 look	advcl
48	to	to	PART	_	49 sleep	mark
49	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 go	xcomp
50	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	53 there	mark
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 there	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 there	cop
53	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	49 sleep	advcl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call away speech: assert	past · passive		the Boy			away, once property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	go out	to-infinitive					to tea; out, suddenly property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	leave out	past · passive	tea not said here	the Rabbit	the lawn	dusk		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	have	past	Nana					tree rules
5	come	to-infinitive	Nana not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	look	infinitive	Nana not said here				for Rabbit; with the candle	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme
7	not go	could	the Boy					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	sleep	to-infinitive	the Boy not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is a condition, not said to happen	past	Rabbit				there property	tree rules

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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