The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 73
He was wet through with the dew and quite earthy from diving into the burrows the Boy had made for him in the flower bed, and Nana grumbled as she rubbed him off with a corner of her apron.
Who acts: Rabbit, burrows, Nana · What happens: be, dive, make, grumble, rub off · To what, where: burrows, Boy, flower bed, Rabbit
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, burrows, Nana), 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 | 3 wet | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wet | cop |
| 3 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADV | _ | 3 wet | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 dew | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dew | det |
| 7 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wet | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 earthy | cc |
| 9 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 10 earthy | advmod |
| 10 | earthy | earthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wet | conj |
| 11 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 12 diving | mark |
| 12 | diving | dive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 earthy | advcl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 burrows | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 burrows | det |
| 15 | burrows | burrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 diving | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Boy | det |
| 17 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 made | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | aux |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 burrows | acl:relcl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 made | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 bed | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bed | det |
| 24 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bed | compound |
| 25 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 grumbled | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 grumbled | cc |
| 28 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 grumbled | nsubj |
| 29 | grumbled | grumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wet | conj |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 rubbed | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 rubbed | nsubj |
| 32 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 grumbled | advcl |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 rubbed | obj |
| 34 | off | off | ADP | _ | 32 rubbed | compound:prt |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 corner | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 corner | det |
| 37 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 rubbed | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 apron | case |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 apron | nmod:poss |
| 40 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 corner | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Rabbit | with the dew; through, wet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Rabbit not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | dive | gerund | Rabbit not said here | the burrows | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into burrow=Location | ||||
| 4 | make | past · perfect · passive | the burrows not said here | the Boy | the flower bed | for Rabbit | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for he=Beneficiary | ||
| 5 | grumble speech: other | past | Nana | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | rub off | past | Nana | Rabbit | with a corner of Nana's apron | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with corner=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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