The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 196
It was so beautiful that the little Rabbit forgot to cry, and just lay there watching it.
Who acts: Flower, little Rabbit · What happens: be, forget, not cry, lie, watch · To what, where: Flower
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, little Rabbit), 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 | 4 beautiful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beautiful | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 beautiful | advmod |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 forgot | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Rabbit | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Rabbit | amod |
| 8 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 forgot | nsubj |
| 9 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beautiful | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 cry | mark |
| 11 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 forgot | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lay | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lay | cc |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 lay | advmod |
| 15 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beautiful | conj |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 lay | advmod |
| 17 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 lay | xcomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 watching | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Flower | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forget | past | the little Rabbit | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not cry speech: express | to-infinitive | the little Rabbit not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lie | past | Flower not said here | there | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | watch | gerund | Flower not said here | Flower | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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