The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 194
For where the tear had fallen a flower grew out of the ground, a mysterious flower, not at all like any that grew in the garden.
Who acts: tear, flower, all · What happens: fall, grow out, grow · To what, where: ground, garden
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 (tear, flower, all), 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 | _ | 6 fallen | case |
| 2 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 fallen | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tear | det |
| 4 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fallen | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fallen | aux |
| 6 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 grew | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 flower | det |
| 8 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 ground | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 ground | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ground | det |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 flower | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 flower | det |
| 16 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 flower | amod |
| 17 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ground | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 grew | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 all | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 all | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 grew | nsubj |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 any | case |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 all | nmod |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 grew | nsubj |
| 25 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 grew | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 garden | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 garden | det |
| 28 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grew | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · perfect | the tear | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grow out | past | a flower | the ground and a mysterious flower | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ground=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | all | the garden | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=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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