The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 59
Nana was in a hurry, and it was too much trouble to hunt for china dogs at bedtime, so she simply looked about her, and seeing that the toy cupboard door stood open, she made a swoop.
Who acts: Nana, hurry, door, cupboard door · What happens: be, hunt, look, see, stand, make · To what, where: hurry, much trouble, swoop
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 (Nana, hurry, door, cupboard door), 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 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hurry | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurry | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 hurry | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hurry | det |
| 5 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trouble | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 trouble | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 trouble | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 trouble | cop |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 trouble | amod |
| 12 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hurry | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 hunt | mark |
| 14 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 trouble | acl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 dogs | case |
| 16 | china | china | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dogs | compound |
| 17 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hunt | obl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 bedtime | case |
| 19 | bedtime | bedtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dogs | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 looked | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 looked | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 looked | nsubj |
| 23 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 24 looked | advmod |
| 24 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurry | parataxis |
| 25 | about | about | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 looked | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 made | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 made | cc |
| 29 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 made | advcl |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 stood | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 door | det |
| 32 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 cupboard | compound |
| 33 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 door | compound |
| 34 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 stood | nsubj |
| 35 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 seeing | advcl |
| 36 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 stood | xcomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 seeing | punct |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 made | nsubj |
| 39 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurry | conj |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 swoop | det |
| 41 | swoop | swoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 made | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hurry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Nana | a hurry | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | hurry | much trouble | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hunt | to-infinitive | Nana not said here | for china dogs at bedtime | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for dog=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | past | Nana | about dog; simply property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | gerund | door not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | stand | past | the cupboard door | open property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | make | past | door | a swoop | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swoop=Product |
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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