The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 228
Autumn passed and Winter, and in the Spring, when the days grew warm and sunny, the Boy went out to play in the wood behind the house.
Who acts: Autumn, days, Boy · What happens: pass, grow, go out, play · To what, where: wood
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 (Autumn, days, Boy), 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 | Autumn | Autumn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | nsubj |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Winter | cc |
| 4 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grew | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 grew | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Spring | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Spring | det |
| 9 | Spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grew | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grew | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 grew | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 days | det |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 grew | nsubj |
| 14 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 passed | conj |
| 15 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grew | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sunny | cc |
| 17 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 warm | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Boy | det |
| 20 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 passed | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 play | mark |
| 24 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 went | xcomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 wood | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wood | det |
| 27 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 play | obl |
| 28 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 30 house | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 house | det |
| 30 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 play | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Autumn | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | the days | spring | warm property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | go out | past | the Boy | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | play | to-infinitive | the Boy not said here | the wood | behind the house | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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