The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 116
Fancy a rabbit without any hind legs!"
Who acts: you · What happens: fancy · To what, where: rabbit
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), 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 | Fancy | fancy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rabbit | det |
| 3 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fancy | obj |
| 4 | without | without | ADP | _ | 7 legs | case |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 legs | det |
| 6 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 legs | amod |
| 7 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Fancy | obl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fancy | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fancy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | imperative | you not said here | a rabbit | without any hind legs | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rabbit=Stimulus |
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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