The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 215

You must be very kind to him and teach him all he needs to know in Rabbit-land, for he is going to live with you for ever and ever!"

Who acts: You, Rabbit, all · What happens: be, teach, need, know, go, live · To what, where: Rabbit, all, Rabbit land · 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, Rabbit, all), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 kind	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 kind	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 kind	advmod
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kind	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 teach	cc
9	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 kind	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 teach	obj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 needs	obj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 needs	nsubj
13	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 teach	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 know	mark
15	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 needs	xcomp
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 land	case
17	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 land	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Rabbit	punct
19	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 know	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 going	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 going	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 going	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 going	aux
24	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 know	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 live	mark
26	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 going	xcomp
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 you	case
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 live	obl
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 ever	case
30	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	26 live	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 ever	cc
32	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	30 ever	conj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 kind	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	must	You		Rabbit		kind property	tree rules
2	teach speech: other	infinitive	You not said here		Rabbit			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	need	present	Rabbit	all				tree rules
4	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	all not said here			Rabbit land		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	go	present · progressive	Rabbit					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	live	to-infinitive	Rabbit not said here				with you	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=Location

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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