The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 19

The mechanical toys were very superior, and looked down upon every one else; they were full of modern ideas, and pretended they were real.

Who acts: mechanical toys, TOYS · What happens: be, look down, pretend

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 (mechanical toys, TOYS), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 toys	det
2	mechanical	mechanical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 toys	amod
3	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 superior	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 superior	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 superior	advmod
6	superior	superior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 looked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 looked	cc
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 superior	conj
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 looked	advmod
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 one	case
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looked	obl
14	else	else	ADV	_	13 one	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 full	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 full	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 full	cop
18	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 superior	parataxis
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 ideas	case
20	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ideas	amod
21	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 full	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pretended	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pretended	cc
24	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 full	conj
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 real	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 real	cop
27	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pretended	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 superior	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the mechanical toys	superior property	tree rules
2	look down	past	the mechanical toys not said here	upon every one; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon one=Theme
3	is	past	TOYS = toy	of modern ideas; full property	tree rules
4	pretend	past	TOYS = toy not said here		tree rules
5	is	past	TOYS = toy	real 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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