The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 109
That was a dreadful question, for the Velveteen Rabbit had no hind legs at all!
Who acts: That, Velveteen Rabbit · What happens: be, have · To what, where: dreadful question, hind legs, all
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 (That, Velveteen 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 question | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 question | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 question | det |
| 4 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 question | amod |
| 5 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 had | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Rabbit | det |
| 9 | Velveteen | Velveteen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Rabbit | compound |
| 10 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 question | conj |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 legs | det |
| 13 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 legs | amod |
| 14 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 had | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 all | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 had | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 question | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | a dreadful question | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the Velveteen Rabbit | no hind legs | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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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