The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 44
And then he wished he had not said it, for he thought the Skin Horse might be sensitive.
Who acts: Rabbit, Skin Horse · What happens: wish, not say, think, be · To what, where: opportunity · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Rabbit, Skin Horse), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 wished | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 wished | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wished | nsubj |
| 4 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 said | advmod |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 wished | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 thought | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Horse | det |
| 15 | Skin | Skin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Horse | compound |
| 16 | Horse | Horse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sensitive | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 sensitive | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sensitive | cop |
| 19 | sensitive | sensitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | Rabbit | then | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not say speech: assert | past · perfect | Rabbit | opportunity | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Rabbit | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | might | the Skin Horse | sensitive property | tree rules |
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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