The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 121
"Then stretch them out and show me, like this!" said the wild rabbit.
Who acts: wild rabbit · What happens: stretch out, show, say · To what, where: legs, wild rabbit · 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 (wild 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 | _ | 3 stretch | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stretch | advmod |
| 3 | stretch | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stretch | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 stretch | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 show | cc |
| 7 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stretch | conj |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 show | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 this | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 this | case |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 show | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 stretch | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stretch | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rabbit | det |
| 16 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rabbit | amod |
| 17 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out in a quote | infinitive | legs = leg | then | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 2 | show in a quote | infinitive | the wild rabbit = rabbit | like this | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | the wild rabbit | vn say-37.7-1-1 «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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