The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 146

Weeks passed, and the little Rabbit grew very old and shabby, but the Boy loved him just as much.

Who acts: Weeks, little Rabbit, Boy · What happens: pass, grow, love · To what, where: 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 (Weeks, little Rabbit, Boy), 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	Weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 passed	nsubj
2	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grew	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 grew	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Rabbit	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Rabbit	amod
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 grew	nsubj
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 old	advmod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grew	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shabby	cc
12	shabby	shabby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 old	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 loved	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 loved	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Boy	det
16	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 loved	nsubj
17	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 loved	obj
19	just	just	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADV	_	17 loved	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pass	past	Weeks			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	the little Rabbit		old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	love	past	the Boy	Rabbit		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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