The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 183
For to-morrow he was going to the seaside, and that in itself was such a wonderful thing that he could think of nothing else.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: go, be, think · To what, where: morrow, wonderful thing
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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 morrow | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 morrow | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 to | punct |
| 4 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 going | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 going | aux |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 morrow | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 seaside | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 seaside | det |
| 10 | seaside | seaside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 going | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 thing | cc |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 thing | mark |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 itself | case |
| 15 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 thing | obl |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 thing | cop |
| 17 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 thing | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 thing | det |
| 19 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 thing | amod |
| 20 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 morrow | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 think | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 think | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 think | aux |
| 24 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 thing | acl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 nothing | case |
| 26 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 24 think | obl |
| 27 | else | else | ADV | _ | 26 nothing | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 morrow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | Boy | morrow and such wonderful thing not said here | to the seaside | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | such wonderful thing | in seaside | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | could | Boy | such wonderful thing not said here | of nothing | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=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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