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title: For to-morrow he was going to the seaside, and that in itself was su… — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: For to-morrow he was going to the seaside, and that in itself was such a wonderful thing that he could think of nothing else. 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 183

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For to-morrow he was going to the seaside, and that in itself was such a wonderful thing that he could think of nothing else.

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**Who acts:** Boy · **What happens:** go, be, think · **To what, where:** morrow, wonderful thing

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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:pg11757:1:183
# text = For to-morrow he was going to the seaside, and that in itself was such a wonderful thing that he could think of nothing else.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	seaside	seaside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obl	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	20	det:predet	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	24	obl	_	_
27	else	else	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · progressive | Boy | morrow and such wonderful thing *not said here* |  |  |  | to the seaside | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | such wonderful thing |  |  |  | in seaside | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | could | Boy | such wonderful thing *not said here* |  |  |  | of nothing | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=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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