The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 182
It was a splendid bunny, all white plush with real glass eyes, but the Boy was too excited to care very much about it.
Who acts: bedroom, Boy · What happens: be, care · To what, where: splendid bunny
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 (bedroom, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bunny | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bunny | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bunny | det |
| 4 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bunny | amod |
| 5 | bunny | bunny | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 plush | punct |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 plush | det |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 plush | amod |
| 9 | plush | plush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bunny | appos |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 eyes | case |
| 11 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 eyes | amod |
| 12 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eyes | compound |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 plush | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 excited | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 excited | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Boy | det |
| 17 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 excited | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 excited | cop |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 excited | advmod |
| 20 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bunny | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 care | mark |
| 22 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 excited | xcomp |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADV | _ | 22 care | advmod |
| 25 | about | about | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 care | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bunny | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | bedroom | a splendid bunny | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the Boy | excited property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | care | to-infinitive | the Boy not said here | about bedroom | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus |
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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