The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 205

When they are old and worn out and the children don't need them any more, then I come and take them away with me and turn them into Real."

Who acts: playthings, children, I · What happens: be, wear out, not need, come, take away, turn · To what, where: playthings, Real

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 (playthings, children, I), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 old	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 old	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 come	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 worn	cc
6	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 old	conj
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 worn	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 need	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 children	det
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 need	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 need	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 need	advmod
13	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 worn	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 need	obj
15	any	any	ADV	_	16 more	advmod
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 need	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 come	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 come	nsubj
20	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 take	cc
22	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 come	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 take	obj
24	away	away	ADV	_	22 take	advmod
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 take	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 turn	cc
28	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 come	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 turn	obj
30	into	into	ADP	_	31 Real	case
31	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 turn	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	playthings = plaything				old property	tree rules
2	wear out	participle	playthings = plaything not said here					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
3	not need	present · do-support	the children	playthings = plaything				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
4	come	present	I			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take away	present	I not said here	playthings = plaything			with me; away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	turn	present	I not said here	playthings = plaything	Real			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme into real=Trajectory

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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