The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 25

He was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the seams underneath, and most of the hairs in his tail had been pulled out to string bead necklaces.

Who acts: Horse, brown coat · What happens: be, show, pull out · To what, where: patches, seams, most

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 (Horse, brown 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	4 old	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 bald	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 coat	nmod:poss
7	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 coat	amod
8	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bald	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bald	cop
10	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 old	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 patches	case
12	patches	patch	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bald	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 showed	cc
14	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 seams	det
16	seams	seam	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 showed	obj
17	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	14 showed	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pulled	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 pulled	cc
20	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 pulled	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 hairs	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hairs	det
23	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 most	nmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 tail	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 tail	nmod:poss
26	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hairs	nmod
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 pulled	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 pulled	aux:pass
29	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 showed	parataxis
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 pulled	compound:prt
31	to	to	PART	_	34 necklaces	mark
32	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bead	compound
33	bead	bead	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 necklaces	compound
34	necklaces	necklace	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 pulled	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Horse			old property	tree rules
2	is	past	Horse's brown coat		patches	bald property	tree rules
3	show	past	Horse not said here	the seams		underneath property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent seam=Recipient
4	pull out	past · perfect · passive		most of the hairs in Horse's tail			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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