The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 12

He was fat and bunchy, as a rabbit should be; his coat was spotted brown and white, he had real thread whiskers, and his ears were lined with pink sateen.

Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: be, spot, have, line · To what, where: rabbit, real thread whiskers, ears

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fat	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fat	cop
3	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bunchy	cc
5	bunchy	bunchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fat	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spotted	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 spotted	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 rabbit	det
9	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spotted	nsubj:pass
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 spotted	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 spotted	aux:pass
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 spotted	punct
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 coat	nmod:poss
14	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spotted	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 spotted	aux:pass
16	spotted	spot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fat	parataxis
17	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 spotted	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 white	cc
19	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 brown	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fat	parataxis
23	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 whiskers	amod
24	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 whiskers	compound
25	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 had	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lined	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 lined	cc
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 ears	nmod:poss
29	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 lined	nsubj:pass
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 lined	aux:pass
31	lined	line	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 had	conj
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 sateen	case
33	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 sateen	amod
34	sateen	sateen	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lined	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Rabbit		fat property	tree rules
2	be		Rabbit not said here			tree rules
3	spot	should · passive		a rabbit	brown property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
4	have	past	Rabbit	real thread whiskers		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whisker=Patient
5	line	past · passive		Rabbit's ears	with pink sateen	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with sateen=Theme

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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