The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 195
It had slender green leaves the colour of emeralds, and in the centre of the leaves a blossom like a golden cup.
Who acts: Flower · What happens: have, leave · To what, where: centre, colour
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 (Flower), 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 | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 had | xcomp |
| 4 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 leaves | amod |
| 5 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 slender | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 colour | det |
| 7 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaves | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 emeralds | case |
| 9 | emeralds | emerald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 colour | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 centre | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 centre | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 centre | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 centre | det |
| 14 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 leaves | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 leaves | det |
| 17 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 centre | nmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 blossom | det |
| 19 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 leaves | conj |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 cup | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cup | det |
| 22 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cup | amod |
| 23 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 blossom | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Flower | the centre of the leaves and a blossom like a golden cup | slender property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | leave | present | Flower not said here | the colour of emeralds | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=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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