The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 58

One evening, when the Boy was going to bed, he couldn't find the china dog that always slept with him.

Who acts: Boy · What happens: go, not find, sleep · To what, where: bed, china dog

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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 find	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 going	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 going	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Boy	det
6	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 going	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 going	aux
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 evening	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 bed	case
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 evening	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 find	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 find	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 find	advmod
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dog	det
17	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dog	compound
18	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 find	obj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 slept	obj
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 slept	advmod
21	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 dog	acl:relcl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 slept	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	the Boy		bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
2	not find	could	Boy	the china dog		evening		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Topic
3	sleep	past		the china dog			with Boy; always property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme

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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