The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 65
And he missed, too, those long moonlight hours in the nursery, when all the house was silent, and his talks with the Skin Horse.
Who acts: Rabbit, house · What happens: miss, be, talk · To what, where: talks
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 (Rabbit, house), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 missed | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 missed | nsubj |
| 3 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 missed | punct |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 missed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hours | punct |
| 7 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 hours | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hours | amod |
| 9 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hours | compound |
| 10 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 missed | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 nursery | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 nursery | det |
| 13 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hours | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 silent | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 silent | advmod |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 house | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 silent | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 silent | cop |
| 20 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hours | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 talks | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 talks | cc |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 talks | nmod:poss |
| 24 | talks | talk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 missed | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 Horse | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Horse | det |
| 27 | Skin | Skin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Horse | compound |
| 28 | Horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 talks | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 missed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past | Rabbit | Rabbit's talks with the Skin Horse | hour | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | is | past | all house | silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | talk | Rabbit | with the Skin Horse | nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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