The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 165

The room was to be disinfected, and all the books and toys that the Boy had played with in bed must be burnt.

Who acts: Boy · What happens: disinfect, play, burnt · To what, where: room, books

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 room	det
2	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 disinfected	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 disinfected	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	6 disinfected	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 disinfected	aux:pass
6	disinfected	disinfect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 burnt	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 burnt	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 books	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 books	det
11	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 burnt	nsubj:pass
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 toys	cc
13	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 books	conj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 played	obj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Boy	det
16	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 played	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 played	aux
18	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 books	acl:relcl
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 bed	case
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 bed	case
21	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 played	obl
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 burnt	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 burnt	aux:pass
24	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 disinfected	parataxis
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 disinfected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	disinfect	past · passive		the room		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	play	past · perfect	the Boy	all books and toys	with bed	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent that=Theme with bed=Co-Agent
3	burnt	must · passive		all books and toys		tree rules

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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