The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 230

One of them was brown all over, but the other had strange markings under his fur, as though long ago he had been spotted, and the spots still showed through.

Who acts: One, other, spots · What happens: be, have, spot, show · To what, where: strange markings, fur, Boy

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 (One, other, spots), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 brown	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brown	cop
5	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 over	advmod
7	over	over	ADV	_	5 brown	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 other	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brown	parataxis
13	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 markings	amod
14	markings	marking	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	obj
15	under	under	ADP	_	17 fur	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 fur	nmod:poss
17	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 spotted	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 spotted	mark
20	though	though	ADV	_	26 spotted	advmod
21	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 ago	advmod
22	ago	ago	ADV	_	26 spotted	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 spotted	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 spotted	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 spotted	aux:pass
26	spotted	spot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 had	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 showed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 showed	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 spots	det
30	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 showed	nsubj
31	still	still	ADV	_	32 showed	advmod
32	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brown	parataxis
33	through	through	ADV	_	32 showed	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 brown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	One of ears				brown, over property	tree rules
2	have	past	the other	strange markings	Boy's fur			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marking=Patient
3	spot	past · perfect · passive		Boy			ago, though property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
4	show	past	the spots			still	through property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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