The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 76
Fancy all that fuss for a toy!"
Who acts: you · What happens: fancy · To what, where: fuss
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 (you), 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 | Fancy | fancy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 fuss | det:predet |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 fuss | det |
| 4 | fuss | fuss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fancy | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 toy | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 toy | det |
| 7 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fancy | obl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fancy | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fancy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | imperative | you not said here | all fuss | for a toy | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fuss=Stimulus for toy=Attribute |
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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