The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 101
"I don't feel like it," said the Rabbit, for he didn't want to explain that he had no clockwork.
Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: not feel, say, not want, explain, have · To what, where: clockwork · 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 (Rabbit), 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 | _ | 5 feel | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 feel | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feel | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 feel | advmod |
| 5 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 feel | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 feel | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 feel | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Rabbit | det |
| 12 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 want | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 want | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 want | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 want | aux |
| 17 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 want | advmod |
| 18 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 explain | mark |
| 20 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 want | xcomp |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 had | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 explain | ccomp |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 clockwork | det |
| 25 | clockwork | clockwork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not feel in a quote | present · do-support | the Rabbit = rabbit | like nose | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Rabbit | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not want | past · do-support | Rabbit | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | explain speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | Rabbit not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | have | past | Rabbit | no clockwork | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clockwork=Patient |
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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