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title: The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. Who acts: Skin Horse. 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 24

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The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others.

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**Who acts:** Skin Horse · **What happens:** live · **To what, where:** nursery

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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), 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:pg11757:1:24
# text = The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Skin	Skin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Horse	Horse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past · perfect | the Skin Horse |  |  | the nursery |  | than any; long *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nursery=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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