The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 232
"Why, he looks just like my old Bunny that was lost when I had scarlet fever!"
Who acts: Boy · What happens: look, lose, have · To what, where: old Bunny, scarlet fever
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 looks | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looks | nsubj |
| 5 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Why | advcl:relcl |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 Bunny | advmod |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 Bunny | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Bunny | nmod:poss |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Bunny | amod |
| 10 | Bunny | bunny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looks | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lost | aux:pass |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Bunny | acl:relcl |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 had | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lost | advcl |
| 17 | scarlet | scarlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fever | compound |
| 18 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 Bunny | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present | Boy | like my old Bunny | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lose in a quote | past · passive | my old Bunny | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | past | the Boy = boy | scarlet fever | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fever=Patient |
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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