The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 103
It's as easy as anything," And he gave a big hop sideways and stood on his hind legs.
Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: be, give, stand · To what, where: big hop, hind legs
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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 easy | expl |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 easy | cop |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 easy | advmod |
| 4 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 anything | case |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 easy | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 easy | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 easy | punct |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gave | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 easy | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hop | det |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hop | amod |
| 14 | hop | hop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 15 | sideways | sideways | ADV | _ | 11 gave | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stood | cc |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gave | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 legs | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 legs | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 legs | amod |
| 21 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stood | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | as anything; easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | past | Rabbit | a big hop | sideways property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hop=Theme | |||
| 3 | stand in a quote | past | Rabbit not said here | Rabbit's hind legs | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location |
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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