The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 23

Between them all the poor little Rabbit was made to feel himself very insignificant and commonplace, and the only person who was kind to him at all was the Skin Horse.

Who acts: Skin Horse, poor little Rabbit, only person · What happens: make, feel, be · To what, where: poor little Rabbit, Rabbit, all, Skin Horse

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 (Skin Horse, poor little Rabbit, only person), 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	Between	between	ADP	_	2 them	case
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	obl
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 made	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Rabbit	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Rabbit	amod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Rabbit	amod
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 made	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 made	aux:pass
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 feel	mark
11	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 made	xcomp
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 feel	obj
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 insignificant	advmod
14	insignificant	insignificant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feel	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 commonplace	cc
16	commonplace	commonplace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 insignificant	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 person	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 person	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 person	det
20	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 person	amod
21	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Horse	nsubj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 kind	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 kind	cop
24	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 person	acl:relcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 kind	obl
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 all	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 kind	obl
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 Horse	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Horse	det
31	Skin	Skin	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Horse	compound
32	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obl:agent
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive	the Skin Horse	the poor little Rabbit			between TOYS = toy	tree rules
2	feel	to-infinitive	the poor little Rabbit not said here	Rabbit				vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme insignificant=Eventuality
3	is	past	the only person		Rabbit	all	kind property	tree rules
4	is a	past	the only person	the Skin Horse				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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