The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 27
For nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and experienced like the Skin Horse understand all about it.
Who acts: playthings · What happens: be, experience, understand
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 (playthings), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 magic | case |
| 2 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 magic | compound |
| 3 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 strange | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 strange | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 strange | advmod |
| 6 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wonderful | cc |
| 8 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 strange | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 understand | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 understand | cc |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 playthings | advmod |
| 12 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 playthings | det |
| 13 | playthings | plaything | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 understand | nsubj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 old | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 old | cop |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 playthings | acl:relcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wise | cc |
| 18 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 old | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 experienced | cc |
| 20 | experienced | experience | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 old | conj |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 Horse | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Horse | det |
| 23 | Skin | Skin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Horse | compound |
| 24 | Horse | Horse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 experienced | obl:agent |
| 25 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 strange | parataxis |
| 26 | all | all | ADV | _ | 28 it | advmod |
| 27 | about | about | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 understand | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 strange | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | for nursery magic; strange property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | is | present | that playthings | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | that playthings not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | experience | participle | that playthings not said here | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | understand | present | that playthings | about magic | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus |
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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