The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 154

It was a long weary time, for the Boy was too ill to play, and the little Rabbit found it rather dull with nothing to do all day long.

Who acts: light, Boy, little Rabbit · What happens: be, play, find, do · To what, where: long weary time, light

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 (light, Boy, little 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 time	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 time	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
5	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ill	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 ill	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Boy	det
10	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 ill	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ill	cop
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 ill	advmod
13	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 play	mark
15	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ill	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 found	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 found	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Rabbit	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Rabbit	amod
20	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 found	nsubj
21	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 time	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 found	obj
23	rather	rather	ADV	_	24 dull	advmod
24	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 found	xcomp
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 nothing	case
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 dull	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 do	mark
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 nothing	acl
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 day	det
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 do	obl:unmarked
31	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 do	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	light	a long weary time			tree rules
2	is	past	the Boy	a long weary time not said here		ill property	tree rules
3	play	to-infinitive	the Boy not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	find	past	the little Rabbit	light		dull property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	do	to-infinitive	the little Rabbit not said here		day	long property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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