The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 160
It was a bright, sunny morning, and the windows stood wide open.
Who acts: fever, windows · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: bright sunny morning
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, windows), 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 | 7 morning | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 morning | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 morning | det |
| 4 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 morning | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bright | punct |
| 6 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 morning | amod |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stood | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 windows | det |
| 11 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 morning | conj |
| 13 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 12 stood | advmod |
| 14 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stood | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 morning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | fever | a bright sunny morning | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the windows | open, wide property | vn assuming_position-50 «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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