--- title: He thought it would be a long time before this magic called Real hap… — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics description: He thought it would be a long time before this magic called Real happened to him. Who acts: Rabbit, most, magic. A sentence of «The Velveteen Rabbit» by Margery Williams Bianco, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/51/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Velveteen Rabbit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/) / [Opening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/) / 51 # The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 51 He thought it would be a long time before this magic called Real happened to him. **Who acts:** Rabbit, most, magic · **What happens:** think, be, call, happen · **To what, where:** magic, Rabbit · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Rabbit, most, magic), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11757:1:51 # text = He thought it would be a long time before this magic called Real happened to him. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 4 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 before before ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 det _ _ 11 magic magic NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 13 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Rabbit | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **is** | would | most | | | | before this magic | | tree rules | | 3 | **call** | participle | | this magic *not said here* | | | | real *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **happen** | past | this magic | | Rabbit | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/52/) - ↑ back to [Opening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11757/1/)