The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 162
The Boy was going to the seaside to-morrow.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: go · To what, where: seaside
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Boy | det |
| 2 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 seaside | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 seaside | det |
| 7 | seaside | seaside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 morrow | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 to | punct |
| 10 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | the Boy | the seaside | to morrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to seaside=Initial_Location to morrow=Destination |
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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