The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 26

He was wise, for he had seen a long succession of mechanical toys arrive to boast and swagger, and by-and-by break their mainsprings and pass away, and he knew that they were only toys, and would never turn into anything else.

Who acts: Horse, long succession, mainsprings · What happens: be, see, arrive, boast, pass away, know · To what, where: toys, anything · 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 (Horse, long succession, mainsprings), 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	3 wise	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wise	cop
3	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 seen	punct
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 seen	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seen	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seen	aux
8	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 wise	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 succession	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 succession	amod
11	succession	succession	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 arrive	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 toys	case
13	mechanical	mechanical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 toys	amod
14	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 succession	nmod
15	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 seen	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 boast	mark
17	boast	boast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 arrive	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 swagger	cc
19	swagger	swagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 boast	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pass	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 pass	cc
22	by	by	ADP	_	27 break	case
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 by	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 by	cc
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 by	punct
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 break	case
27	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pass	obl
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mainsprings	nmod:poss
29	mainsprings	mainspring	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 pass	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 pass	cc
31	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wise	parataxis
32	away	away	ADV	_	31 pass	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 knew	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 knew	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 knew	nsubj
36	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 pass	parataxis
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 toys	mark
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 toys	nsubj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 toys	cop
40	only	only	ADV	_	41 toys	advmod
41	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 knew	ccomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 turn	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 turn	cc
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 turn	aux
45	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	46 turn	advmod
46	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 pass	conj
47	into	into	ADP	_	48 anything	case
48	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	46 turn	obl
49	else	else	ADV	_	48 anything	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Horse			wise property	tree rules
2	see	past · perfect	Horse				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	arrive	present	a long succession of mechanical toys				tree rules
4	boast speech: other	to-infinitive	a long succession of mechanical toys not said here				vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pass away	infinitive	TOYS's mainsprings			by break; away property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	know	past	Horse				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a	past	mainsprings = mainspring	toys			tree rules
8	not turn	would	TOYS's mainsprings not said here		anything		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into anything=Trajectory

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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