The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 29

Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"

Who acts: room, things · What happens: mean, have, buzz · To what, where: things

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 (room, things), 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	Does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mean	aux
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 mean	nsubj
3	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 mean	xcomp
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 having	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 buzz	nsubj
7	buzz	buzz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 things	acl:relcl
8	inside	inside	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 buzz	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 handle	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 handle	det
12	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 out	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 stick	punct
14	out	out	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 handle	compound
15	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buzz	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 mean	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 mean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	room			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have not said to happen	gerund	room not said here	things		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
3	buzz	present	things		inside you	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside you=Location

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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