The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 93
They must have been very well made, for their seams didn't show at all, and they changed shape in a queer way when they moved; one minute they were long and thin and the next minute fat and bunchy, instead of always staying the same like he did.
Who acts: seams, beings, one minute, Rabbit · What happens: make, not show, change, move, be, stay · To what, where: beings, all, shape, queer way, same
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 (seams, beings, one minute, Rabbit), 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 | 7 made | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 made | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 made | advmod |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 show | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 show | mark |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 seams | nmod:poss |
| 11 | seams | seam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 show | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 show | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 show | advmod |
| 14 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 made | advcl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 all | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 show | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 changed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 changed | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 changed | nsubj |
| 20 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | conj |
| 21 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 changed | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 way | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 way | det |
| 24 | queer | queer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 way | amod |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 changed | obl |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 moved | advmod |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 moved | nsubj |
| 28 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 changed | advcl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 long | punct |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 minute | nummod |
| 31 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 long | nsubj |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 long | nsubj |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 long | cop |
| 34 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 changed | advmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 thin | cc |
| 36 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 long | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 fat | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 fat | det |
| 39 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 fat | amod |
| 40 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 fat | compound |
| 41 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 long | conj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 bunchy | cc |
| 43 | bunchy | bunchy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 fat | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 staying | punct |
| 45 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 48 staying | mark |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 instead | fixed |
| 47 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 48 staying | advmod |
| 48 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 43 bunchy | conj |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 same | det |
| 50 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 staying | obj |
| 51 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 53 did | mark |
| 52 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 did | nsubj |
| 53 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 staying | advcl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | must · perfect · passive | beings = being | well property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | not show | past · do-support | beings's seams | all | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | change | past | beings = being | shape | a queer way | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient | |||
| 4 | move | past | beings = being | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | one minute | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | one minute not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | stay | gerund | one minute not said here | the same | always property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme same=Location | |||
| 8 | do | past | Rabbit | vn act-114-1 «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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