The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 92
They were rabbits like himself, but quite furry and brand-new.
Who acts: beings · What happens: be · To what, where: rabbits
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 (beings), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rabbits | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rabbits | cop |
| 3 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 rabbits | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 furry | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 furry | cc |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 furry | advmod |
| 9 | furry | furry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rabbits | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 new | cc |
| 11 | brand | brand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 new | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 brand | punct |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 furry | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rabbits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | beings = being | rabbits | like Rabbit | 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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