The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 66

But very soon he grew to like it, for the Boy used to talk to him, and made nice tunnels for him under the bedclothes that he said were like the burrows the real rabbits lived in.

Who acts: Rabbit, Boy, nice tunnels, real rabbits · What happens: grow, like, use, talk, make, say · To what, where: house, Rabbit, bedclothes, burrows · 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 (Rabbit, Boy, nice tunnels, real rabbits), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 grew	cc
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 soon	advmod
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 grew	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grew	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 like	mark
7	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 grew	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 like	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 used	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 used	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Boy	det
12	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 used	nsubj
13	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grew	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 talk	mark
15	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 used	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 talk	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 made	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 made	cc
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grew	conj
21	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tunnels	amod
22	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 burrows	nsubj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tunnels	nmod
25	under	under	ADP	_	27 bedclothes	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bedclothes	det
27	bedclothes	bedclothe	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tunnels	nmod
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 said	obj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	nsubj
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 bedclothes	acl:relcl
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 burrows	cop
32	like	like	ADP	_	34 burrows	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 burrows	det
34	burrows	burrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 made	obl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 rabbits	det
36	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 rabbits	amod
37	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 lived	nsubj
38	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 burrows	acl:relcl
39	in	in	ADV	_	38 lived	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Rabbit			soon property	tree rules
2	like	to-infinitive	Rabbit not said here	house			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	use	past	the Boy				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	talk	to-infinitive	the Boy not said here		Rabbit		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
5	make	past	Rabbit not said here				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	say speech: assert	past	Rabbit	the bedclothes			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic
7	is	past	nice tunnels for Rabbit under the bedclothes			like the burrows	tree rules
8	live in	past	the real rabbits	the burrows not said here			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme burrow=Location

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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