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The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 150

He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.

Who acts: Rabbit, nursery magic, you, shabbiness · What happens: not mind, look, make, be, not matter · To what, where: Rabbit

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, nursery magic, you, shabbiness), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg11757:120): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

nsubjauxadvmodadvmodnsubjccompcaseamodoblpunctmarkdetcompoundnsubjauxadvclobjxcomppunctccadvmodnsubjcopadvclnsubjauxadvmodconjpunctrootHePRONdidAUXn'tPARTmindVERBhowADVhePRONlookedVERBtoADPotherADJpeopleNOUN,PUNCTbecauseSCONJtheDETnurseryNOUNmagicNOUNhadAUXmadeVERBhimPRONRealADJ,PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVyouPRONareAUXRealADJshabbinessNOUNdoesAUXn'tPARTmatterVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 mindnsubj
2diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 mindaux
3n'tnotPARTPolarity=Neg4 mindadvmod
4mindmindVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
5howhowADVPronType=Int7 lookedadvmod
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 lookednsubj
7lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 mindccomp
8totoADP_10 peoplecase
9otherotherADJDegree=Pos10 peopleamod
10peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur7 lookedobl
11,,PUNCT_17 madepunct
12becausebecauseSCONJ_17 mademark
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 magicdet
14nurserynurseryNOUNNumber=Sing15 magiccompound
15magicmagicNOUNNumber=Sing17 madensubj
16hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 madeaux
17mademakeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part4 mindadvcl
18himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 madeobj
19RealrealADJDegree=Pos17 madexcomp
20,,PUNCT_29 matterpunct
21andandCCONJ_29 mattercc
22whenwhenADVPronType=Int25 Realadvmod
23youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs25 Realnsubj
24arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin25 Realcop
25RealrealADJDegree=Pos29 matteradvcl
26shabbinessshabbinessNOUNNumber=Sing29 matternsubj
27doesdoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin29 matteraux
28n'tnotPARTPolarity=Neg29 matteradvmod
29mattermatterVERBVerbForm=Inf17 madeconj
30..PUNCT_4 mindpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not mindpast · do-supportRabbitvn care-88.1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2lookpastRabbitto other peoplevn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to people=Theme
3makepast · perfectthe nursery magicRabbitreal propertyvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
4ispresentyoureal propertytree rules
5not matterpresent · do-supportshabbinessvn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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