The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 90

He took the Velveteen Rabbit with him, and before he wandered off to pick flowers, or play at brigands among the trees, he always made the Rabbit a little nest somewhere among the bracken, where he would be quite cosy, for he was a kind-hearted little boy and he liked Bunny to be comfortable.

Who acts: Boy · What happens: take, wander off, pick, play, make, be · To what, where: Velveteen Rabbit, flowers, brigands, little nest, Rabbit, hearted little boy

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Rabbit	det
4	Velveteen	Velveteen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Rabbit	compound
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wandered	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wandered	cc
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 wandered	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wandered	nsubj
12	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 wandered	compound:prt
14	to	to	PART	_	15 pick	mark
15	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wandered	advcl
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pick	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 play	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 play	cc
19	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 pick	conj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 brigands	case
21	brigands	brigand	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 play	obl
22	among	among	ADP	_	24 trees	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 trees	det
24	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 play	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 made	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 made	nsubj
27	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	28 made	advmod
28	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Rabbit	det
30	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	obj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 nest	det
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 nest	amod
33	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	obj
34	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 made	advmod
35	among	among	ADP	_	37 bracken	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 bracken	det
37	bracken	bracken	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 cosy	punct
39	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	44 cosy	advmod
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 cosy	nsubj
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 cosy	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 cosy	cop
43	quite	quite	ADV	_	44 cosy	advmod
44	cosy	cosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 bracken	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 boy	punct
46	for	for	SCONJ	_	54 boy	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 boy	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 boy	cop
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 boy	det
50	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 hearted	compound
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 kind	punct
52	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 boy	amod
53	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 boy	amod
54	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	obl
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 liked	cc
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 liked	nsubj
57	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
58	Bunny	Bunny	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 liked	obj
59	to	to	PART	_	61 comfortable	mark
60	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	61 comfortable	cop
61	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 liked	advcl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	Boy		the Velveteen Rabbit		with Rabbit	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument rabbit=Destination
2	wander off	past	Boy					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pick	to-infinitive	Boy not said here	flowers				vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient
4	play	infinitive	Boy not said here			brigands	among the trees	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	make	past	Boy	a little nest	the Rabbit		among the bracken; always, somewhere property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset rabbit=Beneficiary nest=Product
6	is	would	Boy				cosy property	tree rules
7	is a	past	Boy	a hearted little boy				tree rules
8	like	past	Boy	Bunny				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bunny=Theme
9	is	to-infinitive	Boy not said here				comfortable 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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