The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 87

And into his boot-button eyes, that had long ago lost their polish, there came a look of wisdom and beauty, so that even Nana noticed it next morning when she picked him up, and said, "I declare if that old Bunny hasn't got quite a knowing expression!"

Who acts: button eyes, Nana, old Bunny · What happens: have, lose, come, notice, pick up, say · To what, where: polish, look, Boy, knowing expression · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (button eyes, Nana, old Bunny), 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	_	13 lost	cc
2	into	into	ADP	_	7 eyes	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eyes	nmod:poss
4	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 button	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 boot	punct
6	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eyes	compound
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lost	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 eyes	acl:relcl
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 ago	advmod
12	ago	ago	ADV	_	10 had	advmod
13	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 polish	nmod:poss
15	polish	polish	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lost	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 came	expl
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lost	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 look	det
20	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 wisdom	case
22	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 look	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 beauty	cc
24	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wisdom	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 noticed	punct
26	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	30 noticed	mark
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 so	fixed
28	even	even	ADV	_	29 Nana	advmod
29	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 noticed	nsubj
30	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 came	parataxis
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 noticed	obj
32	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 morning	amod
33	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 noticed	obl:unmarked
34	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	36 picked	advmod
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 picked	nsubj
36	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 noticed	conj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 picked	obj
38	up	up	ADP	_	36 picked	compound:prt
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 said	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 said	cc
41	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 came	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 declare	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 declare	punct
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 declare	nsubj
45	declare	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 said	ccomp
46	if	if	SCONJ	_	52 got	mark
47	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 Bunny	nsubj
48	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 Bunny	amod
49	Bunny	Bunny	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 got	nsubj
50	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 got	aux
51	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 got	advmod
52	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 declare	advcl
53	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	56 expression	det:predet
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 expression	det
55	knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	56 expression	amod
56	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 got	obj
57	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 lost	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Boy's button eyes				ago property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	lose	past	Boy's button eyes	eyes's polish				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent polish=Eventuality
3	come	past	Boy's button eyes not said here	a look of wisdom and beauty	there			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location look=Theme
4	notice	past	Nana	look		morning		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	pick up	past	Nana	Boy				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
6	say speech: express	past	Boy's button eyes not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	declare speech: other in a quote	present	Boy's button eyes = eye					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
8	not get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · perfect	old Bunny	quite knowing expression				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer expression=Stimulus
9	know in a quote	gerund						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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