The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 82
When the little Rabbit heard that he was happy, for he knew that what the Skin Horse had said was true at last.
Who acts: little Rabbit, Rabbit, Skin Horse · What happens: hear, be, know, say · To what, where: last · 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 (little Rabbit, Rabbit, Skin 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Rabbit | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Rabbit | amod |
| 4 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 happy | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 happy | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 happy | cop |
| 9 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heard | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knew | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 knew | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knew | nsubj |
| 13 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 true | mark |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 true | nsubj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Horse | det |
| 17 | Skin | Skin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Horse | compound |
| 18 | Horse | Horse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | aux |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 true | cop |
| 22 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 knew | ccomp |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 last | case |
| 24 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 true | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the little Rabbit | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Rabbit | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | past | Rabbit | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | the Skin Horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | last | true property | 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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