The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 18
He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him.
Who acts: Rabbit, some · What happens: be, make, snub · 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, some), 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 | 4 shy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shy | cop |
| 3 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 4 shy | advmod |
| 4 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 made | aux:pass |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 made | advmod |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 shy | parataxis |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 velveteen | case |
| 11 | velveteen | velveteen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 snubbed | punct |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 snubbed | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 toys | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 toys | det |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 expensive | advmod |
| 17 | expensive | expensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 toys | amod |
| 18 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 snubbed | obl |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 snubbed | advmod |
| 20 | snubbed | snub | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shy | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 snubbed | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Rabbit | naturally, shy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund · passive | of velveteen | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | |||||
| 3 | snub | past | some | Rabbit | of the expensive toys | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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