The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 115
"He hasn't got any hind legs!" he called out. "
Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: not get, call out · 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 (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 | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 got | advmod |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 called | parataxis |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 legs | det |
| 7 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 legs | amod |
| 8 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | obj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 called | nsubj |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 called | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get in a quote | present · perfect | Rabbit | any hind legs | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | call out speech: express | participle | Rabbit | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that 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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