The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 108
"Can you hop on your hind legs?" asked the furry rabbit.
Who acts: you, furry rabbit · What happens: hop, ask · To what, where: hind legs · 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, furry 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 | _ | 4 hop | punct |
| 2 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hop | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 hop | nsubj |
| 4 | hop | hop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 legs | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 legs | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 legs | amod |
| 8 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hop | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 hop | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hop | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rabbit | det |
| 13 | furry | furry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rabbit | amod |
| 14 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop in a quote | can | you | your hind legs | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the furry rabbit | 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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