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title: "Run and play, little Rabbit!" she said. — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: "Run and play, little Rabbit!" she said. Who acts: fairy. 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 217

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"Run and play, little Rabbit!" she said.

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**Who acts:** fairy · **What happens:** run, play, say · **To what, where:** little Rabbit · **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 (fairy), 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:pg11757:1:217
# text = "Run and play, little Rabbit!" she said.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | little Rabbit |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **play** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | fairy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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