The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 52

He longed to become Real, to know what it felt like; and yet the idea of growing shabby and losing his eyes and whiskers was rather sad.

Who acts: Rabbit, magic, idea · What happens: long, become, know, feel, grow, lose · To what, where: eyes

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, magic, idea), 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 longed	nsubj
2	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 become	mark
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 longed	xcomp
5	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 become	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	8 know	mark
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 become	conj
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 know	obj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 felt	nsubj
11	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 what	acl:relcl
12	like	like	ADP	_	11 felt	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 sad	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 idea	cc
15	yet	yet	ADV	_	17 idea	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 idea	det
17	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sad	nsubj
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 growing	mark
19	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 idea	acl
20	shabby	shabby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 growing	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 losing	cc
22	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 growing	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 eyes	nmod:poss
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 losing	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 whiskers	cc
26	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 eyes	conj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sad	cop
28	rather	rather	ADV	_	29 sad	advmod
29	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 longed	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 longed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	long	past	Rabbit			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	become not said to happen	to-infinitive	Rabbit not said here		real property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	know	to-infinitive	Rabbit not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	feel	past	magic			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	grow	gerund	the idea not said here		shabby property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	lose	gerund	the idea not said here	Rabbit's eyes and whiskers		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality
7	is	past	the idea		sad 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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