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title: You must be very kind to him and teach him all he needs to know in R… — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: You must be very kind to him and teach him all he needs to know in Rabbit-land, for he is going to live with you for ever and ever!" Who acts: You, Rabbit, all. 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 215

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You must be very kind to him and teach him all he needs to know in Rabbit-land, for he is going to live with you for ever and ever!"

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**Who acts:** You, Rabbit, all · **What happens:** be, teach, need, know, go, live · **To what, where:** Rabbit, all, Rabbit land · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (You, Rabbit, all), 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:pg11757:1:215
# text = You must be very kind to him and teach him all he needs to know in Rabbit-land, for he is going to live with you for ever and ever!"
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	obj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	ccomp	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	26	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | must | You |  | Rabbit |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | infinitive | You *not said here* |  | Rabbit |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **need** | present | Rabbit | all |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | all *not said here* |  |  | Rabbit land |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **go** | present · progressive | Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **live** | to-infinitive | Rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with you | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=Location |

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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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