--- title: For at least two hours the Boy loved him, and then Aunts and Uncles… — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics description: For at least two hours the Boy loved him, and then Aunts and Uncles came to dinner, and there was a great rustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels, and in the excitement of looking at all the new presents the Velveteen Rabbit was forgotten. Who acts: Boy, Aunts, great rustling, excitement. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Velveteen Rabbit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/) / [Opening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/) / 15 # The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 15 For at least two hours the Boy loved him, and then Aunts and Uncles came to dinner, and there was a great rustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels, and in the excitement of looking at all the new presents the Velveteen Rabbit was forgotten. **Who acts:** Boy, Aunts, great rustling, excitement · **What happens:** love, come, be, look, forget, rustle · **To what, where:** Rabbit, dinner, Velveteen Rabbit, tissue paper 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, Aunts, great rustling, excitement), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11757:1:15 # text = For at least two hours the Boy loved him, and then Aunts and Uncles came to dinner, and there was a great rustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels, and in the excitement of looking at all the new presents the Velveteen Rabbit was forgotten. 1 For for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 nmod _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Boy Boy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 13 Aunts aunt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 Uncles uncle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 22 expl _ _ 22 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 rustling rustling NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 tissue tissue NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 unwrapping unwrapping NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 parcels parcel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 excitement excitement NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 38 of of SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 39 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 acl _ _ 40 at at ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 41 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 44 det:predet _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 presents present NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 Velveteen Velveteen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 48 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 aux:pass _ _ 49 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **love** | past | the Boy | Rabbit | | | hour | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 2 | **come** | past | Aunts and Uncles | | | dinner | then | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to dinner=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **be** | past | a great rustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **look** | gerund | the excitement *not said here* | | | | | at all new presents | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at present=Theme | | 5 | **forget** | past · passive | | the Velveteen Rabbit | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **rustle** | | | tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels | | | | | nom rustling «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/16/) - ↑ back to [Opening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/)