--- title: Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close t… — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «The Ve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/94/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Velveteen Rabbit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/) / [Opening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/) / 94 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11757:1:94 # text = 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. 1 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 padded pad VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 softly softly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 quite quite ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 twitching twitch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 noses nose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 while while SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 stared stare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 25 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 29 det _ _ 29 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 clockwork clockwork NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 32 stuck stick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 33 out out ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 for for SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 39 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj _ _ 40 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 41 jump jump VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 42 generally generally ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 43 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 44 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 43 obj _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 47 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 obj _ _ 48 up up ADP RP _ 46 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/93/) - next →: [sentence 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/95/) - ↑ back to [Opening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/)