The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 40
That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.
Who acts: That, it, people · What happens: be, not happen, break, have, keep · To what, where: sharp edges
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 (That, it, people), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 why | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | cop |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 happen | nsubj |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 happen | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 happen | advmod |
| 7 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 why | advcl:relcl |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 happen | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 happen | obl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 break | nsubj |
| 12 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 people | acl:relcl |
| 13 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 12 break | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 have | cc |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 break | conj |
| 17 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 edges | amod |
| 18 | edges | edge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 have | cc |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 have | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 break | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 kept | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 kept | aux:pass |
| 25 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 26 kept | advmod |
| 26 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 have | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not happen | present · do-support | it | to people; often property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break | present | people | easily property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have | present | people not said here | sharp edges | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=Patient | ||||
| 5 | have | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | keep | to-infinitive · passive | carefully property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP» |
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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