The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 199
Her dress was of pearl and dew-drops, and there were flowers round her neck and in her hair, and her face was like the most perfect flower of all.
Who acts: dress, flowers, face · What happens: be
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 (dress, flowers, face), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 dress | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pearl | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pearl | cop |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 pearl | case |
| 5 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drops | cc |
| 7 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drops | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 dew | punct |
| 9 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pearl | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 were | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 were | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 were | expl |
| 13 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pearl | parataxis |
| 14 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 were | nsubj |
| 15 | round | round | ADP | _ | 17 neck | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 neck | nmod:poss |
| 17 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flowers | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hair | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 hair | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hair | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 neck | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 flower | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 flower | cc |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 face | nmod:poss |
| 25 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 flower | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 flower | cop |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 flower | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 flower | det |
| 29 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 30 perfect | advmod |
| 30 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 flower | amod |
| 31 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pearl | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 all | case |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 flower | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pearl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | fairy's dress | of pearl and dew drops and the perfect flower | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | flowers round fairy's neck and fairy's hair | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | fairy's face | like the perfect flower; of all | 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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