The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 24
The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others.
Who acts: Skin Horse · What happens: live · To what, where: nursery
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 (Skin Horse), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Horse | det |
| 2 | Skin | Skin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Horse | compound |
| 3 | Horse | Horse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lived | aux |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 lived | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 nursery | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 nursery | det |
| 9 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obl |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 any | case |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 lived | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 others | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 others | det |
| 14 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 any | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past · perfect | the Skin Horse | the nursery | than any; long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nursery=Location |
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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