The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 186

He was shivering a little, for he had always been used to sleeping in a proper bed, and by this time his coat had worn so thin and threadbare from hugging that it was no longer any protection to him.

Who acts: Boy, coat · What happens: shiver, use, sleep, wear, hug, not be · To what, where: little, Boy, proper bed, coat, protection

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, coat), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shivering	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shivering	aux
3	shivering	shiver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shivering	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 used	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 used	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 used	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 used	aux
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 used	advmod
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 used	aux:pass
12	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 shivering	conj
13	to	to	SCONJ	_	14 sleeping	mark
14	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 used	advcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 bed	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bed	det
17	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bed	amod
18	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sleeping	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 worn	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 worn	cc
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 time	case
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 time	det
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 worn	obl
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 coat	nmod:poss
25	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 worn	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 worn	aux
27	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 used	conj
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 thin	advmod
29	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 worn	xcomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 threadbare	cc
31	threadbare	threadbare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 thin	conj
32	from	from	SCONJ	_	33 hugging	mark
33	hugging	hug	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 worn	advcl
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 longer	mark
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 longer	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 longer	cop
37	no	no	ADV	_	38 longer	advmod
38	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 hugging	advmod
39	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	40 protection	det
40	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hugging	obj
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 hugging	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shivering	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shiver	past · progressive	Boy	a little					tree rules
2	use	past · perfect · passive		Boy				always property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	sleep	gerund				a proper bed			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
4	wear	past · perfect · passive		Boy's coat			time	thin property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
5	hug	gerund		any protection	Boy				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protection=Co-Agent
6	not is	past	coat					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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