The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 14
There were other things in the stocking, nuts and oranges and a toy engine, and chocolate almonds and a clockwork mouse, but the Rabbit was quite the best of all.
Who acts: other things, Rabbit · What happens: be
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 (other things, Rabbit), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 things | amod |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 stocking | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stocking | det |
| 7 | stocking | stocking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 things | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 nuts | punct |
| 9 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stocking | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 oranges | cc |
| 11 | oranges | orange | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 nuts | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 engine | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 engine | det |
| 14 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 engine | compound |
| 15 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stocking | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 almonds | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 almonds | cc |
| 18 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 almonds | compound |
| 19 | almonds | almond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 mouse | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 mouse | det |
| 22 | clockwork | clockwork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mouse | compound |
| 23 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 almonds | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 best | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 best | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Rabbit | det |
| 27 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 best | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 best | cop |
| 29 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 31 best | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 best | det |
| 31 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 were | nsubj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 all | case |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 best | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | other things in the stocking and nuts and oranges and a toy engine | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the Rabbit | of all; good 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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