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title: It was a splendid bunny, all white plush with real glass eyes, but t… — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a splendid bunny, all white plush with real glass eyes, but the Boy was too excited to care very much about it. Who acts: bedroom, 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 182

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It was a splendid bunny, all white plush with real glass eyes, but the Boy was too excited to care very much about it.

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**Who acts:** bedroom, Boy · **What happens:** be, care · **To what, where:** splendid bunny

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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 (bedroom, 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:pg11757:1:182
# text = It was a splendid bunny, all white plush with real glass eyes, but the Boy was too excited to care very much about it.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bunny	bunny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	plush	plush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	excited	excited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	much	much	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | bedroom | a splendid bunny |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Boy |  |  |  |  | excited *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **care** | to-infinitive | the Boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about bedroom | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus |

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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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