The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 17
For a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor, and no one thought very much about him.
Who acts: Rabbit, one · What happens: live, think · To what, where: toy cupboard
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 (Rabbit, one), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 cupboard | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cupboard | det |
| 9 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cupboard | compound |
| 10 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 floor | cc |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 floor | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 floor | det |
| 14 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 floor | compound |
| 15 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cupboard | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thought | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 thought | cc |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 thought | nsubj |
| 20 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | conj |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 much | advmod |
| 22 | much | much | ADV | _ | 20 thought | advmod |
| 23 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thought | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Rabbit | the toy cupboard or the nursery floor | time | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cupboard=Location | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | no one | about Rabbit | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about he=Topic |
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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