The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 231

And about his little soft nose and his round black eyes there was something familiar, so that the Boy thought to himself:

Who acts: something, Boy · What happens: be, think · To what, where: Boy

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 (something, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 was	cc
2	about	about	ADP	_	6 nose	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nose	nmod:poss
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nose	amod
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nose	amod
6	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 was	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 eyes	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 eyes	nmod:poss
9	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 eyes	amod
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 eyes	amod
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 nose	conj
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 was	expl
13	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 thought	parataxis
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 was	nsubj
15	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 something	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thought	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	21 thought	advmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 thought	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Boy	det
20	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 thought	nsubj
21	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 himself	case
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 thought	obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	something			there		about Boy's little soft nose and Boy's round black eyes	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about nose=Location
2	think speech: other	past	the Boy		Boy				vn focus-87.1-1 «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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