The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 149
To him he was always beautiful, and that was all that the little Rabbit cared about.
Who acts: Boy, that · What happens: be · To what, where: Boy
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 (Boy, that), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 him | case |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 beautiful | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 beautiful | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 beautiful | cop |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 beautiful | advmod |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cared | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cared | cc |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 cared | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cared | cop |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 cared | det:predet |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 cared | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Rabbit | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Rabbit | amod |
| 15 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 cared | nsubj |
| 16 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 beautiful | parataxis |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 cared | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Boy | Boy | always, beautiful property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | that | about, care 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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