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title: Between them all the poor little Rabbit was made to feel himself ver… — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: Between them all the poor little Rabbit was made to feel himself very insignificant and commonplace, and the only person who was kind to him at all was the Skin Horse. Who acts: Skin Horse, poor little Rabbit, only person. A sentence of «The Velveteen Rabbit» by Margery Williams Bianco, Opening, wit
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# The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 23

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Between them all the poor little Rabbit was made to feel himself very insignificant and commonplace, and the only person who was kind to him at all was the Skin Horse.

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**Who acts:** Skin Horse, poor little Rabbit, only person · **What happens:** make, feel, be · **To what, where:** poor little Rabbit, Rabbit, all, Skin Horse

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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 (Skin Horse, poor little Rabbit, only person), 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:pg11757:1:23
# text = Between them all the poor little Rabbit was made to feel himself very insignificant and commonplace, and the only person who was kind to him at all was the Skin Horse.
1	Between	between	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	insignificant	insignificant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	commonplace	commonplace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	obl	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Skin	Skin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive | the Skin Horse | the poor little Rabbit |  |  |  | between TOYS *= toy* | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | to-infinitive | the poor little Rabbit *not said here* | Rabbit |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme insignificant=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | past | the only person |  | Rabbit | all |  | kind *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the only person | the Skin Horse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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