The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 56

She called this "tidying up," and the playthings all hated it, especially the tin ones.

Who acts: person, playthings · What happens: call, tidy up, hate · To what, where: this, notice · 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 (person, playthings), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 called	obj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 tidying	punct
5	tidying	tidy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 called	advcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 tidying	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tidying	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 tidying	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hated	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 playthings	det
11	playthings	plaything	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hated	nsubj
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 hated	advmod
13	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hated	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ones	punct
16	especially	especially	ADV	_	19 ones	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ones	det
18	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ones	compound
19	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hated	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	person	this		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient
2	tidy up in a quote	gerund	person not said here			tree rules
3	hate	past	the playthings	notice	the tin ones obl; all property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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