The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 51
He thought it would be a long time before this magic called Real happened to him.
Who acts: Rabbit, most, magic · What happens: think, be, call, happen · To what, where: magic, Rabbit · 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, most, magic), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 magic | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 magic | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 magic | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 be | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 magic | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 magic | det |
| 11 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 happened | nsubj |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 magic | acl |
| 13 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 called | xcomp |
| 14 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 happened | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Rabbit | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | would | most | before this magic | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | this magic not said here | real property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | happen | past | this magic | Rabbit | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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