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title: Nana was in a hurry, and it was too much trouble to hunt for china d… — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: Nana was in a hurry, and it was too much trouble to hunt for china dogs at bedtime, so she simply looked about her, and seeing that the toy cupboard door stood open, she made a swoop. Who acts: Nana, hurry, door, cupboard door. A sentence of «The Velveteen Rabbit» by Margery Williams Bianco, Opening
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# The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 59

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Nana was in a hurry, and it was too much trouble to hunt for china dogs at bedtime, so she simply looked about her, and seeing that the toy cupboard door stood open, she made a swoop.

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**Who acts:** Nana, hurry, door, cupboard door · **What happens:** be, hunt, look, see, stand, make · **To what, where:** hurry, much trouble, swoop

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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 (Nana, hurry, door, cupboard door), 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:pg11757:1:59
# text = Nana was in a hurry, and it was too much trouble to hunt for china dogs at bedtime, so she simply looked about her, and seeing that the toy cupboard door stood open, she made a swoop.
1	Nana	Nana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	china	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
29	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	advcl	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
36	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	swoop	swoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	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 | Nana |  |  | a hurry |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | hurry | much trouble |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | Nana *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for china dogs at bedtime | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for dog=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | past | Nana |  |  |  |  | about dog; simply *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about she=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | gerund | door *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **stand** | past | the cupboard door |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **make** | past | door | a swoop |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swoop=Product |

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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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