The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 202
The Rabbit looked up at her, and it seemed to him that he had seen her face before, but he couldn't think where.
Who acts: Rabbit, it · What happens: look up, seem, see, not think · To what, where: Rabbit, face
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, it), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rabbit | det |
| 2 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 looked | compound:prt |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seemed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 seemed | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seemed | nsubj |
| 10 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seemed | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 seen | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seen | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 seen | aux |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 seemed | xcomp |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 face | nmod:poss |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seen | obj |
| 19 | before | before | ADV | _ | 16 seen | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 think | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 think | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 think | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 think | aux |
| 24 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 think | advmod |
| 25 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 looked | conj |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 think | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | the Rabbit | at face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | it | Rabbit | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | Rabbit | face's face | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | not think speech: other | could | Rabbit | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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