The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 68

And when the Boy dropped off to sleep, the Rabbit would snuggle down close under his little warm chin and dream, with the Boy's hands clasped close round him all night long.

Who acts: Boy, Rabbit · What happens: drop off, sleep, snuggle down, dream, clasp · To what, where: little warm chin, hands

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, Rabbit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg11757:51): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 snuggle	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 dropped	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Boy	det
4	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dropped	nsubj
5	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 snuggle	advcl
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 dropped	compound:prt
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sleep	mark
8	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 dropped	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dropped	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Rabbit	det
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 snuggle	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 snuggle	aux
13	snuggle	snuggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 snuggle	advmod
15	close	close	ADV	_	13 snuggle	advmod
16	under	under	ADP	_	20 chin	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 chin	nmod:poss
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 chin	amod
19	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 chin	amod
20	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 snuggle	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dream	cc
22	dream	dream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 snuggle	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 clasped	punct
24	with	with	SCONJ	_	29 clasped	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Boy	det
26	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 hands	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 Boy	case
28	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 clasped	nsubj:pass
29	clasped	clasp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 dream	advcl
30	close	close	ADV	_	29 clasped	advmod
31	round	round	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 clasped	obl
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 night	det
34	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 long	obl:unmarked
35	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 clasped	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 snuggle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drop off	past	the Boy				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	sleep	to-infinitive	the Boy not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	snuggle down	would	the Rabbit		Rabbit's little warm chin	close, down property	tree rules
4	dream	infinitive	the Rabbit not said here				vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	clasp	participle · passive		the Boy's hands		round Rabbit; close, long property	vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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