The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 188
He thought of those long sunlit hours in the garden-how happy they were-and a great sadness came over him.
Who acts: Boy, canes, great sadness · What happens: think, be, come · Speech: someone speaks here
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, canes, great sadness), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 hours | case |
| 4 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 hours | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hours | amod |
| 6 | sunlit | sunlit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hours | amod |
| 7 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 thought | obl |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 happy | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 happy | det |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 happy | nsubj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 happy | punct |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 happy | advmod |
| 13 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 were | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 happy | ccomp |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 came | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sadness | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sadness | amod |
| 20 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | conj |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 came | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Boy | hour | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | be | past | canes = cane | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | a great sadness | over Boy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over he=Initial_Location |
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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