The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 191
Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this?
Who acts: use · What happens: be, love, lose, become, end · To what, where: wood, use, beauty
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 (use), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 loved | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 it | cop |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 use | nmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 loved | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 loved | aux:pass |
| 8 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lose | cc |
| 10 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 loved | conj |
| 11 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 one | case |
| 13 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lose | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 become | cc |
| 15 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 lose | conj |
| 16 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 become | xcomp |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 ended | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ended | nsubj |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 ended | advmod |
| 20 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 become | advcl |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 this | case |
| 22 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 ended | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | wood | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | love | to-infinitive · passive | use | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | lose | infinitive | one's beauty | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | become | infinitive | real property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | end a condition, not said to happen | past | use | like this; all property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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