The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 207
"You were Real to the Boy," the Fairy said, "because he loved you.
Who acts: You, Fairy, Boy · What happens: be, say, love · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, Fairy, Boy), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Real | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 Real | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Real | cop |
| 4 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Boy | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Boy | det |
| 7 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Real | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Fairy | det |
| 11 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Real | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 loved | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 loved | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 loved | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 loved | nsubj |
| 17 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 loved | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Real | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | You | to the Boy; real property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Fairy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | love in a quote | past | Boy | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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