The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 94
Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses, while the Rabbit stared hard to see which side the clockwork stuck out, for he knew that people who jump generally have something to wind them up.
Who acts: beings, Rabbit, people · What happens: pad, creep, twitch, stare, see, stick out · To what, where: feet, ground, noses, side, clockwork, something
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 (beings, Rabbit, people), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 feet | nmod:poss |
| 2 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 padded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | padded | pad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 3 padded | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 padded | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 crept | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 crept | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 crept | nsubj |
| 11 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 padded | parataxis |
| 12 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 13 close | advmod |
| 13 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 crept | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 close | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 twitching | punct |
| 17 | twitching | twitch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 crept | advcl |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 noses | nmod:poss |
| 19 | noses | nose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 twitching | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stared | punct |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 stared | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Rabbit | det |
| 23 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 stared | nsubj |
| 24 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 crept | conj |
| 25 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 stared | xcomp |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 see | mark |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 hard | xcomp |
| 28 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 29 side | det |
| 29 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 see | obj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 clockwork | det |
| 31 | clockwork | clockwork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 side | appos |
| 32 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 clockwork | acl |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 stuck | compound:prt |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 knew | punct |
| 35 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 37 knew | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 knew | nsubj |
| 37 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 stared | parataxis |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 have | mark |
| 39 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 have | nsubj |
| 40 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 jump | nsubj |
| 41 | jump | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 people | acl:relcl |
| 42 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 41 jump | advmod |
| 43 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 knew | advcl |
| 44 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 43 have | obj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 wind | mark |
| 46 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 something | nmod |
| 47 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 wind | obj |
| 48 | up | up | ADP | _ | 46 wind | compound |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 padded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pad | participle · passive | beings's feet | the ground | softly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | creep | past | beings = being | close property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | twitch | gerund | beings = being not said here | beings's noses | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient | ||||
| 4 | stare | past | the Rabbit | hard property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | the Rabbit not said here | which side | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer side=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | stick out | participle | the clockwork not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | know | past | Rabbit | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | jump | present | people | generally property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | have | present | people | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/94/