The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 152

His face grew very flushed, and he talked in his sleep, and his little body was so hot that it burned the Rabbit when he held him close.

Who acts: face, Boy, little body, body · What happens: grow, flush, talk, be, burn, hold · To what, where: sleep, 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 (face, Boy, little body, body), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 face	nmod:poss
2	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 flushed	advmod
5	flushed	flush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grew	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 talked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 talked	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 talked	nsubj
9	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 sleep	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sleep	nmod:poss
12	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 talked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hot	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hot	cc
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 body	nmod:poss
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 body	amod
17	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hot	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hot	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 hot	advmod
20	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 talked	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 burned	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 burned	nsubj
23	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hot	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Rabbit	det
25	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 burned	obj
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 held	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 held	nsubj
28	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 burned	advcl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 held	obj
30	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 held	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Boy's face				tree rules
2	flush	participle	Boy's face not said here				vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	talk	past	Boy		Boy's sleep		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Boy's little body			hot property	tree rules
5	burn	past	body	the Rabbit			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme
6	hold	past	Boy	Rabbit		close property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	sleep		Boy				nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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