The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 86
That night he was almost too happy to sleep, and so much love stirred in his little sawdust heart that it almost burst.
Who acts: night, heart · What happens: be, sleep, stir, burst · To what, where: much love, little sawdust heart
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 (night, heart), 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 | 7 happy | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 happy | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happy | cop |
| 5 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 6 too | advmod |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 happy | advmod |
| 7 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 sleep | mark |
| 9 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 happy | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 love | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 love | cc |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 love | amod |
| 14 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 happy | obl |
| 15 | stirred | stir | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 love | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 heart | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heart | nmod:poss |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 heart | amod |
| 19 | sawdust | sawdust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heart | compound |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stirred | obl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 burst | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 burst | nsubj |
| 23 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 24 burst | advmod |
| 24 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 heart | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that night | much love obl; happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | that night not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stir | participle | much love not said here | Boy's little sawdust heart | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=Location | ||||
| 4 | burst | past | heart | almost property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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