The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 22

Even Timothy, the jointed wooden lion, who was made by the disabled soldiers, and should have had broader views, put on airs and pretended he was connected with Government.

Who acts: disabled soldiers · What happens: joint, make, have, put, pretend, connect · To what, where: jointed wooden lion, broader views, airs, Rabbit

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 (disabled soldiers), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	2 Timothy	advmod
2	Timothy	Timothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lion	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lion	det
5	jointed	joint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lion	amod
6	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lion	amod
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Timothy	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 made	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	aux:pass
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lion	acl:relcl
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 soldiers	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 soldiers	det
14	disabled	disabled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 soldiers	amod
15	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 made	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 had	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 had	aux
20	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 made	parataxis
21	broader	broad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 views	amod
22	views	view	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 had	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
24	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 had	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 airs	case
26	airs	air	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 put	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 pretended	cc
28	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 put	conj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 connected	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 connected	aux:pass
31	connected	connect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 pretended	ccomp
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 Government	case
33	Government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 connected	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Timothy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	joint	participle					tree rules
2	make	past · passive	the disabled soldiers	the jointed wooden lion			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product
3	have	should · perfect		broader views			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Patient
4	put	participle			airs		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on air=Destination
5	pretend	past					tree rules
6	connect	past · passive		Rabbit		with Government	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with government=Co-Patient

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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