The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 128
"He doesn't smell right!" he exclaimed. "
Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: not smell, exclaim · 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 smell | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 smell | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 smell | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 smell | advmod |
| 5 | smell | smell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | right | right | ADV | _ | 5 smell | advmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 smell | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 smell | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 10 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 smell | acl:relcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 smell | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 smell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not smell in a quote | present · do-support | Rabbit | right property | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | Rabbit | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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