The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 217
"Run and play, little Rabbit!" she said.
Who acts: fairy · What happens: run, play, say · To what, where: little Rabbit · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Run | punct |
| 2 | Run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 play | cc |
| 4 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Run | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Rabbit | punct |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Rabbit | amod |
| 7 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Run | obl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Run | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Run | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run in a quote | infinitive | little Rabbit | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | play in a quote | infinitive | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | fairy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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