The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 198
She was quite the loveliest fairy in the whole world.
Who acts: fairy · What happens: be · To what, where: loveliest fairy, whole world
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 (fairy), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fairy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fairy | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 fairy | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fairy | det |
| 5 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 fairy | amod |
| 6 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 world | amod |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fairy | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fairy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | fairy | quite loveliest fairy | the whole world | tree rules |
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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