The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 233

But he never knew that it really was his own Bunny, come back to look at the child who had first helped him to be Real.

Who acts: Boy, child, own Bunny · What happens: not know, be, come back, look, have, help · To what, where: own Bunny, Boy

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 (Boy, child, own Bunny), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 knew	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 knew	advmod
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	obl
7	really	really	ADV	_	11 Bunny	advmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 Bunny	cop
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 Bunny	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Bunny	amod
11	Bunny	bunny	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 helped	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 Bunny	parataxis
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 look	mark
16	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 come	xcomp
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 child	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 child	det
19	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 look	obl
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 child	acl:relcl
22	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 had	advmod
23	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	parataxis
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 helped	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	27 Real	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 Real	cop
27	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 helped	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not know	past	Boy			that fever	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past		Boy's own Bunny			tree rules
3	come back	infinitive					tree rules
4	look	to-infinitive				at the child	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at child=Theme
5	have	past	the child			first property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	help	past	Boy's own Bunny		Boy		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
7	is	to-infinitive	Boy's own Bunny not said here			real property	tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/233/