The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 54
There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery.
Who acts: person · What happens: be, call, rule · To what, where: person, nursery · 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 (person), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 person | det |
| 4 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 person | acl |
| 6 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 ruled | nsubj |
| 8 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 person | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 nursery | det |
| 10 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ruled | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a person | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a person not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rule | past | a person | the nursery | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nursery=Theme |
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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