The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 98
They stared at him, and the little Rabbit stared back.
Who acts: people, little Rabbit · What happens: stare, stare back
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 (people, little 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 | 2 stared | nsubj |
| 2 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stared | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stared | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stared | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Rabbit | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Rabbit | amod |
| 9 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 stared | nsubj |
| 10 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stared | parataxis |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 stared | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | people | at Rabbit | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stare back | past | the little Rabbit | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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