The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 83
The nursery magic had happened to him, and he was a toy no longer.
Who acts: nursery magic, Rabbit · What happens: happen, be · To what, where: Rabbit, toy
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 (nursery magic, 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 | 3 magic | det |
| 2 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 magic | compound |
| 3 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happened | aux |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 happened | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 toy | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 toy | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 toy | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 toy | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 toy | det |
| 13 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happened | conj |
| 14 | no | no | ADV | _ | 15 longer | advmod |
| 15 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 toy | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past · perfect | the nursery magic | Rabbit | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Rabbit | a toy | long 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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