The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 53
He wished that he could become it without these uncomfortable things happening to him.
Who acts: Rabbit, uncomfortable things · What happens: wish, become, happen · To what, where: magic, Rabbit
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, uncomfortable things), 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 wished | nsubj |
| 2 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 become | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 become | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 become | aux |
| 6 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wished | advcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 become | obj |
| 8 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 things | case |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 things | det |
| 10 | uncomfortable | uncomfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 things | amod |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 become | obl |
| 12 | happening | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 things | acl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 happening | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | Rabbit | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | become | could | Rabbit | magic | without this uncomfortable things | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient it=Result | |||
| 3 | happen | gerund | this uncomfortable things not said here | 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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