The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 163
Everything was arranged, and now it only remained to carry out the doctor's orders.
Who acts: morrow, doctor · What happens: arrange, remain, carry out, order · To what, where: Everything, orders
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 (morrow, doctor), 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 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 arranged | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arranged | aux:pass |
| 3 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 remained | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 remained | cc |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 remained | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 remained | nsubj |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 remained | advmod |
| 9 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arranged | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 carry | mark |
| 11 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 remained | xcomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 carry | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 doctor | det |
| 14 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 orders | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 doctor | case |
| 16 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 carry | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arranged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrange | past · passive | Everything | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | remain | past | morrow | now | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry out | to-infinitive | morrow not said here | the doctor's orders | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | order | the doctor | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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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