--- title: But he snuggled down patiently, and looked forward to the time when… — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics description: But he snuggled down patiently, and looked forward to the time when the Boy should be well again, and they would go out in the garden amongst the flowers and the butterflies and play splendid games in the raspberry thicket like they used to. Who acts: Rabbit, Boy, people. A sentence of «The Velvetee --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/155/) [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/) / 155 # The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 155 But he snuggled down patiently, and looked forward to the time when the Boy should be well again, and they would go out in the garden amongst the flowers and the butterflies and play splendid games in the raspberry thicket like they used to. **Who acts:** Rabbit, Boy, people · **What happens:** snuggle down, look, be, go out, play, use · **To what, where:** garden, splendid games, raspberry thicket 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, people), 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:pg11757:1:155 # text = But he snuggled down patiently, and looked forward to the time when the Boy should be well again, and they would go out in the garden amongst the flowers and the butterflies and play splendid games in the raspberry thicket like they used to. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 snuggled snuggle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 down down ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 patiently patiently ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 forward forward ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 when when SCONJ WRB _ 19 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Boy Boy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 16 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 cop _ _ 18 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 19 again again ADV RB _ 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 25 out out ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 amongst amongst ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 butterflies butterfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 37 splendid splendid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 raspberry raspberry NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 thicket thicket NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 43 like like SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 44 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 45 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **snuggle down** | past | Rabbit | | | | | down, patiently *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | past | Rabbit *not said here* | | | | time | forward *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | should | the Boy | | | | | again, well *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **go out** | would | people | | | the garden | | amongst the flowers and the butterflies; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **play** | present | Rabbit *not said here* | splendid games | | the raspberry thicket | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | | 6 | **use** | past | people | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 154](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/154/) - next →: [sentence 156](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/156/) - ↑ back to [Opening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/)