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title: One of them was brown all over, but the other had strange markings u… — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: One of them was brown all over, but the other had strange markings under his fur, as though long ago he had been spotted, and the spots still showed through. Who acts: One, other, spots. A sentence of «The Velveteen Rabbit» by Margery Williams Bianco, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 230

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One of them was brown all over, but the other had strange markings under his fur, as though long ago he had been spotted, and the spots still showed through.

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**Who acts:** One, other, spots · **What happens:** be, have, spot, show · **To what, where:** strange markings, fur, Boy

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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 (One, other, spots), 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:pg11757:1:230
# text = One of them was brown all over, but the other had strange markings under his fur, as though long ago he had been spotted, and the spots still showed through.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	markings	marking	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
20	though	though	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
21	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	spotted	spot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
31	still	still	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
33	through	through	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	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** | past | One of ears |  |  |  |  | brown, over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | the other | strange markings |  | Boy's fur |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marking=Patient |
| 3 | **spot** | past · perfect · passive |  | Boy |  |  |  | ago, though *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 4 | **show** | past | the spots |  |  |  | still | through *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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