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title: And he missed, too, those long moonlight hours in the nursery, when… — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: And he missed, too, those long moonlight hours in the nursery, when all the house was silent, and his talks with the Skin Horse. Who acts: Rabbit, house. 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 65

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And he missed, too, those long moonlight hours in the nursery, when all the house was silent, and his talks with the Skin Horse.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, house · **What happens:** miss, be, talk · **To what, where:** talks

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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 (Rabbit, house), 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:pg11757:1:65
# text = And he missed, too, those long moonlight hours in the nursery, when all the house was silent, and his talks with the Skin Horse.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	talks	talk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Skin	Skin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **miss** | past | Rabbit | Rabbit's talks with the Skin Horse |  |  | hour |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | all house |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **talk** |  | Rabbit |  |  |  |  | with the Skin Horse | nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |

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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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