The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 89

Near the house where they lived there was a wood, and in the long June evenings the Boy liked to go there after tea to play.

Who acts: eyes, wood, Boy · What happens: live, be, like, go, play · To what, where: house

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 (eyes, wood, 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	Near	near	ADP	_	3 house	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 house	det
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 lived	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wood	det
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 liked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 liked	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 evenings	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 evenings	det
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 evenings	amod
16	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 evenings	compound
17	evenings	evening	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 liked	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Boy	det
19	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 liked	nsubj
20	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 go	mark
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 liked	xcomp
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 go	advmod
24	after	after	ADP	_	25 tea	case
25	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 play	mark
27	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 go	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	live	past	eyes = eye	the house		tree rules
2	be	past	a wood	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	like	past	the Boy		evening	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Boy not said here	there	after tea	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	play	to-infinitive	the Boy not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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