The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 181

That night the Boy slept in a different bedroom, and he had a new bunny to sleep with him.

Who acts: Boy · What happens: sleep, have · To what, where: different bedroom, new bunny

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 (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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slept	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Boy	det
4	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 slept	nsubj
5	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 bedroom	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bedroom	det
8	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bedroom	amod
9	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slept	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slept	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bunny	det
15	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bunny	amod
16	bunny	bunny	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 sleep	mark
18	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	advcl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sleep	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	the Boy		a different bedroom	night		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bedroom=Location
2	have	past	Boy	a new bunny				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bunny=Patient
3	sleep	to-infinitive	Boy not said here				with Boy	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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