The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 57
The Rabbit didn't mind it so much, for wherever he was thrown he came down soft.
Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: not mind, throw, come down · To what, where: notice, 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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rabbit | det |
| 2 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mind | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mind | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 mind | advmod |
| 5 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 mind | obj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 mind | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thrown | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 thrown | mark |
| 11 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 thrown | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thrown | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thrown | aux:pass |
| 14 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 mind | parataxis |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thrown | ccomp |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 18 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 came | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | past · do-support | the Rabbit | notice | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw | past · passive | Rabbit | wherever property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come down | past | Rabbit | down, soft property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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