The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 77

The Boy sat up in bed and stretched out his hands.

Who acts: Boy · What happens: sit up, stretch out · To what, where: bed, hands

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 (Boy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Boy	det
2	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 bed	case
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stretched	cc
8	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sat	conj
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 stretched	compound:prt
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hands	nmod:poss
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stretched	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit up	past	the Boy			bed			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
2	stretch out	participle	the Boy not said here	Boy's hands					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

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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