The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 172

Why, it's a mass of scarlet fever germs!-Burn it at once.

Who acts: sand, mass · What happens: be, burn · To what, where: mass, sand

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 (sand, mass), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 Burn	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mass	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mass	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mass	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mass	det
6	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Burn	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 germs	case
8	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fever	compound
9	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 germs	compound
10	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mass	nmod
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 mass	punct
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Burn	punct
13	Burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 Burn	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 Burn	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 Burn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	sand	a mass				of fever germs	tree rules
2	burn	infinitive	a mass	sand					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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