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title: He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the… — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him. Who acts: Rabbit, some. 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 18

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He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, some · **What happens:** be, make, snub · **To what, where:** Rabbit

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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 (Rabbit, some), 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:pg11757:1:18
# text = He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	shy	shy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	velveteen	velveteen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	expensive	expensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
19	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	snubbed	snub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Rabbit |  |  |  |  | naturally, shy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  | of velveteen | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
| 3 | **snub** | past | some | Rabbit |  |  |  | of the expensive toys | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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