The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 28

"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "

Who acts: REAL, playthings, Nana · What happens: be, ask, lie, come, tidy · To what, where: REAL, Rabbit, side, nursery fender, room · 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 (REAL, playthings, Nana), 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	_	4 REAL	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 REAL	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 REAL	cop
4	REAL	REAL	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 asked	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 REAL	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 REAL	punct
7	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Rabbit	det
9	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asked	obj
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 day	nummod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asked	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lying	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 lying	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lying	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 lying	aux
16	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 asked	advcl
17	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lying	obj
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 side	case
19	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lying	obl
20	near	near	ADP	_	23 fender	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fender	det
22	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fender	compound
23	fender	fender	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lying	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
25	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 came	mark
26	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 asked	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 tidy	mark
29	tidy	tidy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 came	xcomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 room	det
31	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tidy	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		REAL					tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	REAL		the Rabbit		day		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rabbit=Recipient
3	lie	past · progressive	playthings = plaything	side		the nursery fender		by side	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location side=Theme
4	come	past	Nana						tree rules
5	tidy	to-infinitive	Nana not said here	the room					tree rules

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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