The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 100
"Why don't you get up and play with us?" one of them asked.
Who acts: you, one · What happens: not get up, play, ask · 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 (you, one), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 get | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 get | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 get | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 play | cc |
| 9 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 get | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 us | case |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 play | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 one | nmod |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get up in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | play in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | with us | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with we=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | one of people | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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