The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 110
The back of him was made all in one piece, like a pincushion.
What happens: make · To what, where: back
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 back | det |
| 2 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 back | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 piece | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 piece | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 piece | nummod |
| 10 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pincushion | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 pincushion | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pincushion | det |
| 14 | pincushion | pincushion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | the back of Rabbit | like a pincushion | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary piece=Product |
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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