The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 148
He even began to lose his shape, and he scarcely looked like a rabbit any more, except to the Boy.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: begin, lose, look · To what, where: shape
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 (Boy), 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 began | nsubj |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 3 began | advmod |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 lose | mark |
| 5 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 shape | nmod:poss |
| 7 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lose | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 looked | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 12 looked | advmod |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 rabbit | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 rabbit | det |
| 15 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looked | obl |
| 16 | any | any | ADV | _ | 17 more | advmod |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 looked | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Boy | punct |
| 19 | except | except | ADP | _ | 22 Boy | case |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Boy | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Boy | det |
| 22 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 looked | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Boy | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | lose | to-infinitive | Boy not said here | Boy's shape | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | look | past | Boy | like a rabbit; except the Boy; scarcely property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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