The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 212
All the forest was beautiful, and the fronds of the bracken shone like frosted silver.
Who acts: forest, fronds · What happens: be, shine, frost
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 (forest, fronds), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 forest | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 forest | det |
| 3 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beautiful | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beautiful | cop |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shone | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shone | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fronds | det |
| 9 | fronds | frond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shone | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bracken | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bracken | det |
| 12 | bracken | bracken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fronds | nmod |
| 13 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 beautiful | advcl |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 silver | case |
| 15 | frosted | frost | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 silver | amod |
| 16 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shone | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all forest | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shine | participle | the fronds of the bracken | like frosted silver | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | frost | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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