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title: He loved him so hard that he loved all his whiskers off, and the pin… — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: He loved him so hard that he loved all his whiskers off, and the pink lining to his ears turned grey, and his brown spots faded. Who acts: Boy, pink lining, brown spots. A sentence of «The Velveteen Rabbit» by Margery Williams Bianco, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 147

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He loved him so hard that he loved all his whiskers off, and the pink lining to his ears turned grey, and his brown spots faded.

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**Who acts:** Boy, pink lining, brown spots · **What happens:** love, turn, fade · **To what, where:** Rabbit, whiskers

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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, pink lining, brown spots), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11757:1:147
# text = He loved him so hard that he loved all his whiskers off, and the pink lining to his ears turned grey, and his brown spots faded.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	off	off	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	lining	lining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
22	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	faded	fade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | Boy | Rabbit |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **love** | past | Boy | Boy's whiskers |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whisker=Stimulus |
| 3 | **turn** | past | the pink lining to Boy's ears |  |  |  |  | grey *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fade** | past | Boy's brown spots |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**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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