The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 31
It's a thing that happens to you.
Who acts: room, thing · What happens: be, happen · To what, where: thing, you
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 (room, thing), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thing | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 thing | det |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 happens | nsubj |
| 6 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thing | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 happens | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | room | a thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happen | present | a thing | you | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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