The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 157
And presently the fever turned, and the Boy got better.
Who acts: fever, Boy · What happens: turn, get
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 (fever, Boy), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 turned | cc |
| 2 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 5 turned | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fever | det |
| 4 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 got | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Boy | det |
| 9 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | conj |
| 11 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 got | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the fever | presently property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | past | the Boy | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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