The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 20

The model boat, who had lived through two seasons and lost most of his paint, caught the tone from them and never missed an opportunity of referring to his rigging in technical terms.

Who acts: model boat, opportunity · What happens: live, lose, catch, not miss, refer · To what, where: most, tone, opportunity, technical terms

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 (model boat, opportunity), 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 boat	det
2	model	model	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boat	compound
3	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 caught	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lived	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lived	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lived	aux
7	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 boat	acl:relcl
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 seasons	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 seasons	nummod
10	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lived	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lost	cc
12	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lived	conj
13	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 lost	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 paint	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 paint	nmod:poss
16	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 most	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 boat	punct
18	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tone	det
20	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 caught	obj
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 caught	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 missed	cc
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 missed	advmod
25	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 caught	conj
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 opportunity	det
27	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 missed	obj
28	of	of	SCONJ	_	29 referring	mark
29	referring	refer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 opportunity	acl
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 rigging	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 rigging	nmod:poss
32	rigging	rigging	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 referring	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 terms	case
34	technical	technical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 terms	amod
35	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 referring	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past · perfect	the model boat			season		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lose	past	the model boat not said here	most of Rabbit's paint				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Eventuality
3	catch	past	the model boat	the tone			from TOYS = toy	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent tone=Theme from they=Source
4	not miss	past	the model boat not said here	a opportunity				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer opportunity=Stimulus
5	refer	gerund	a opportunity not said here		technical terms		to Rabbit's rigging	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to rigging=Co-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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