The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 190

He thought of the Skin Horse, so wise and gentle, and all that he had told him.

Who acts: Boy · What happens: think, tell · To what, where: Horse · Speech: someone speaks here

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 Horse	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Horse	det
5	Skin	Skin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Horse	compound
6	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wise	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 wise	advmod
9	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gentle	cc
11	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wise	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 told	det:predet
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 told	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 told	aux
18	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Boy					of the Skin Horse	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	Boy		Horse				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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