The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 192
And a tear, a real tear, trickled down his little shabby velvet nose and fell to the ground.
What happens: trickle down, fall · To what, where: tear
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 trickled | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tear | det |
| 3 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trickled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tear | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tear | det |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tear | amod |
| 7 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tear | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 trickled | punct |
| 9 | trickled | trickle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 trickled | compound:prt |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 nose | nmod:poss |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 nose | amod |
| 13 | shabby | shabby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 nose | amod |
| 14 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nose | compound |
| 15 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trickled | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fell | cc |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 trickled | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 ground | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ground | det |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 trickled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trickle down | participle · passive | a tear and a real tear | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme nose=Destination | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=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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