The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 69
And so time went on, and the little Rabbit was very happy-so happy that he never noticed how his beautiful velveteen fur was getting shabbier and shabbier, and his tail becoming unsewn, and all the pink rubbed off his nose where the Boy had kissed him.
Who acts: Rabbit, beautiful velveteen fur, tail, pink · What happens: go on, be, not notice, get, become, rub off · To what, where: unsewn, nose · 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 (Rabbit, beautiful velveteen fur, tail, pink), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 happy | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 happy | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Rabbit | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Rabbit | amod |
| 10 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 happy | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 happy | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 happy | advmod |
| 13 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 happy | csubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 happy | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 happy | advmod |
| 16 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 noticed | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 noticed | nsubj |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 noticed | advmod |
| 20 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 happy | advcl |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 getting | advmod |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 fur | nmod:poss |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fur | amod |
| 24 | velveteen | velveteen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fur | compound |
| 25 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 getting | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 getting | aux |
| 27 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 noticed | ccomp |
| 28 | shabbier | shabby | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 getting | xcomp |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 shabbier | cc |
| 30 | shabbier | shabby | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 shabbier | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 becoming | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 becoming | cc |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 tail | nmod:poss |
| 34 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 becoming | nsubj |
| 35 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 getting | conj |
| 36 | unsewn | unsewn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 becoming | xcomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 rubbed | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 rubbed | cc |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 pink | det:predet |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 pink | det |
| 41 | pink | pink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 rubbed | nsubj |
| 42 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | parataxis |
| 43 | off | off | ADP | _ | 42 rubbed | compound:prt |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 nose | nmod:poss |
| 45 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 kissed | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 50 kissed | advmod |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Boy | det |
| 48 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 kissed | nsubj |
| 49 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 kissed | aux |
| 50 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 rubbed | conj |
| 51 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 kissed | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | time | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | happy property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not notice | past | Rabbit | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | get | past · progressive | Rabbit's beautiful velveteen fur | shabby property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | become | gerund | Rabbit's tail | unsewn | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | rub off | participle | all pink | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | kiss | past · perfect · passive | Rabbit's nose | tree rules |
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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