The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 13
On Christmas morning, when he sat wedged in the top of the Boy's stocking, with a sprig of holly between his paws, the effect was charming.
Who acts: Rabbit, effect · What happens: sit, wedge, be · To what, where: top
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 (Rabbit, effect), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg11757:5): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | compound |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 charming | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 sat | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sat | nsubj |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 charming | advcl |
| 8 | wedged | wedge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sat | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 top | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 top | det |
| 11 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wedged | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 stocking | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Boy | det |
| 14 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 stocking | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Boy | case |
| 16 | stocking | stocking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 top | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sprig | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 sprig | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sprig | det |
| 20 | sprig | sprig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 holly | case |
| 22 | holly | holly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sprig | nmod |
| 23 | between | between | ADP | _ | 25 paws | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 paws | nmod:poss |
| 25 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sprig | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 charming | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 effect | det |
| 28 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 charming | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 charming | cop |
| 30 | charming | charming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 charming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Rabbit | with a sprig of holly between Rabbit's paws | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wedge | participle | Rabbit not said here | the top of the Boy's stocking | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in top=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the effect | morning | charming 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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