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title: Even Timothy, the jointed wooden lion, who was made by the disabled… — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: Even Timothy, the jointed wooden lion, who was made by the disabled soldiers, and should have had broader views, put on airs and pretended he was connected with Government. Who acts: disabled soldiers. A sentence of «The Velveteen Rabbit» by Margery Williams Bianco, Opening, with its dependency tree
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# The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 22

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Even Timothy, the jointed wooden lion, who was made by the disabled soldiers, and should have had broader views, put on airs and pretended he was connected with Government.

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**Who acts:** disabled soldiers · **What happens:** joint, make, have, put, pretend, connect · **To what, where:** jointed wooden lion, broader views, airs, 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 (disabled soldiers), 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:pg11757:1:22
# text = Even Timothy, the jointed wooden lion, who was made by the disabled soldiers, and should have had broader views, put on airs and pretended he was connected with Government.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	Timothy	Timothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	jointed	joint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
6	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	disabled	disabled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	parataxis	_	_
21	broader	broad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	views	view	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	airs	air	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	ccomp	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **joint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive | the disabled soldiers | the jointed wooden lion |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |
| 3 | **have** | should · perfect |  | broader views |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Patient |
| 4 | **put** | participle |  |  |  | airs |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on air=Destination |
| 5 | **pretend** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **connect** | past · passive |  | Rabbit |  |  |  | with Government | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with government=Co-Patient |

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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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