The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 220
He did not know that when the Fairy kissed him that last time she had changed him altogether.
Who acts: Rabbit, Fairy · What happens: not know, kiss, change · To what, where: Rabbit · 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 (Rabbit, Fairy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 kissed | mark |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 kissed | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Fairy | det |
| 8 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 kissed | nsubj |
| 9 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | ccomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kissed | obj |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 time | det |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kissed | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 changed | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 changed | aux |
| 16 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 time | acl:relcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 changed | obj |
| 18 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 16 changed | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | Rabbit | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | kiss | past | the Fairy | Rabbit | time | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | change | past · perfect | fairy | Rabbit | altogether property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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