The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 107

He meant when the Boy threw him, but of course he didn't want to say so.

Who acts: Rabbit, Boy · What happens: mean, throw, not want, say · To what, where: Rabbit · 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, Boy), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 meant	nsubj
2	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 threw	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Boy	det
5	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 threw	nsubj
6	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 meant	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 threw	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 want	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 want	cc
10	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	15 want	advmod
11	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 of	fixed
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 want	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 want	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 want	advmod
15	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 meant	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 say	mark
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 want	xcomp
18	so	so	ADV	_	17 say	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 meant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	past	Rabbit		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	throw	past	the Boy	Rabbit	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	not want	past · do-support	Rabbit		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Rabbit not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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