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title: Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and some… — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards. Who acts: person, playthings. A sentence of «The Velveteen Rabbit» by Margery Williams Bianco, Opening, with its dependency
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# The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 55

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Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.

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**Who acts:** person, playthings · **What happens:** take, lie, go, swoop, hustle away, notice · **To what, where:** notice, playthings, cupboards

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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 (person, playthings), 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:pg11757:1:55
# text = Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	playthings	plaything	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
18	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	swooping	swoop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	_
23	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	hustled	hustle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	cupboards	cupboard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **take** | past | person | no notice of the playthings |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund | the playthings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past | person |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **swoop** | gerund | person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a great wind; about *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **hustle away** | past | person *not said here* | playthings *= plaything* |  | cupboards |  | away *property* | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 6 | **notice** |  |  | the playthings |  |  |  |  | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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