The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 211
It was light now, for the moon had risen.
Who acts: wood · What happens: be, rise · To what, where: moon
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 (wood), 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 | 3 light | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 light | cop |
| 3 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 light | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 risen | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 risen | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 moon | det |
| 8 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 risen | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 risen | aux |
| 10 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 light | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 light | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | wood | now | light property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rise | past · perfect · passive | the moon | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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