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title: The room was to be disinfected, and all the books and toys that the… — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: The room was to be disinfected, and all the books and toys that the Boy had played with in bed must be burnt. Who acts: Boy. A sentence of «The Velveteen Rabbit» by Margery Williams Bianco, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 165

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The room was to be disinfected, and all the books and toys that the Boy had played with in bed must be burnt.

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**Who acts:** Boy · **What happens:** disinfect, play, burnt · **To what, where:** room, books

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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), 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:pg11757:1:165
# text = The room was to be disinfected, and all the books and toys that the Boy had played with in bed must be burnt.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	disinfected	disinfect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disinfect** | past · passive |  | the room |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **play** | past · perfect | the Boy | all books and toys |  |  |  | with bed | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent that=Theme with bed=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **burnt** | must · passive |  | all books and toys |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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