The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 35
When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."
Who acts: you · What happens: be, not mind, hurt
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 (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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 Real | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 Real | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Real | cop |
| 4 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mind | advcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 mind | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mind | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 mind | advmod |
| 8 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 hurt | aux:pass |
| 10 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 mind | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mind | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not mind | present · do-support | you | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | hurt | gerund · passive | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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