The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 42

But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

Who acts: things, you, people · What happens: not matter, be, not be, not understand · To what, where: all

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 (things, you, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 matter	cc
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 things	det
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 matter	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 matter	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 matter	advmod
6	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 matter	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ugly	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 Real	mark
11	once	once	SCONJ	_	14 Real	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 Real	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 Real	cop
14	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ugly	advcl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 ugly	nsubj
16	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 ugly	aux
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 ugly	advmod
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 ugly	cop
19	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 matter	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 people	punct
21	except	except	ADP	_	23 people	case
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 people	case
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 ugly	obl
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 understand	nsubj
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 understand	aux
26	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 understand	advmod
27	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 people	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 matter	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 matter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	this things	all		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present	you		real property	tree rules
3	not is	can	you		except people; ugly property	tree rules
4	not understand	present · do-support	people			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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