The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 206
"Wasn't I Real before?" asked the little Rabbit.
Who acts: I · What happens: not be, ask · To what, where: little 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 (I), 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 Real | punct |
| 2 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Real | cop |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 Real | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 Real | nsubj |
| 5 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 asked | parataxis |
| 6 | before | before | ADV | _ | 5 Real | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 Real | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Real | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Rabbit | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Rabbit | amod |
| 12 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | iobj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | past | I | before, real property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the little Rabbit | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent rabbit=Recipient 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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