The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 11
HERE was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid.
Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: be · To what, where: velveteen rabbit, beginning
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 | HERE | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 rabbit | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rabbit | cop |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 rabbit | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rabbit | det |
| 5 | velveteen | velveteen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rabbit | compound |
| 6 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 splendid | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 splendid | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 beginning | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beginning | det |
| 11 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 splendid | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 splendid | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 splendid | cop |
| 14 | really | really | ADV | _ | 15 splendid | advmod |
| 15 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rabbit | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rabbit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a velveteen rabbit | here | once property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | Rabbit | in the beginning | splendid property | tree rules |
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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