The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 197
And presently the blossom opened, and out of it there stepped a fairy.
Who acts: blossom · What happens: open, step · To what, where: fairy, blossom
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 (blossom), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 opened | cc |
| 2 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 5 opened | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 blossom | det |
| 4 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | nsubj |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stepped | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stepped | cc |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stepped | obl |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 stepped | advmod |
| 12 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 opened | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fairy | det |
| 14 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stepped | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the blossom | presently property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | step | past | the blossom not said here | a fairy | blossom; there | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location fairy=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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