The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 63
That night, and for many nights after, the Velveteen Rabbit slept in the Boy's bed.
Who acts: Velveteen Rabbit · What happens: sleep · To what, where: bed
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 (Velveteen Rabbit), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slept | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 nights | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 nights | cc |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 nights | case |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 nights | amod |
| 7 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 night | conj |
| 8 | after | after | ADV | _ | 7 nights | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 night | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Rabbit | det |
| 11 | Velveteen | Velveteen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Rabbit | compound |
| 12 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 slept | nsubj |
| 13 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 bed | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Boy | det |
| 16 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 bed | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Boy | case |
| 18 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slept | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | the Velveteen Rabbit | the Boy's bed | night | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=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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