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title: by Margery Williams Illustrations by William Nicholson — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: by Margery Williams Illustrations by William Nicholson 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 4

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by Margery Williams Illustrations by William Nicholson

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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: 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:pg11757:1:4
# text = by Margery Williams Illustrations by William Nicholson
1	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Margery	Margery	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	Williams	Williams	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Illustrations	Illustration	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	Nicholson	Nicholson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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