The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 32
When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."
Who acts: child, you · What happens: love, not play, become · To what, where: 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 (child, you), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 loves | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loves | nsubj |
| 4 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 play | advcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 loves | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 long | punct |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loves | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 play | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 play | advmod |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 play | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 play | mark |
| 16 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 play | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 loves | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 loves | cc |
| 20 | REALLY | really | ADV | _ | 21 loves | advmod |
| 21 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 play | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 loves | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 become | punct |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 become | advmod |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 become | nsubj |
| 26 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 loves | conj |
| 27 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 become | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 play | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 play | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | a child | you | time | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not play | to-infinitive | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | love | present | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | become | present | you | then | real property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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