The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 36
"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"
Who acts: it, Horse · What happens: happen, woun up, ask · To what, where: bit · 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 (it, Horse), 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 | _ | 4 happen | punct |
| 2 | Does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 once | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 happen | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wound | punct |
| 9 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 11 wound | mark |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 wound | aux:pass |
| 11 | wound | woun | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 happen | parataxis |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 wound | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 wound | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 bit | cc |
| 20 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 bit | case |
| 22 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bit | nmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen in a quote | present · do-support | it | once property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | woun up in a quote | gerund · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Horse | bit by bit | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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